• Banana

  is a nutritious fruit that grows from various large, herbaceaous flowering plants belonging to the genus Musa . Botanically speaking the fruit is a berry [...] downwards from the top of the plant. Nowadays, almost all edible, seedless (parthenocarpic) bananas derive from only two different, wild species; Musa acuminata

• Common beans

  common bean is a changeable species that has been cultivated already for a very long time. Wild varieties often tend to grow upwards, however many types are [...] snap bean) is a herbaceous annual plant. Botanically speaking, it belongs to the legume family Fabaceae , together with other Phaseolus species. The common

• Wheat bunt

  distinguished. The filiform basidiospores fuse in the middle with a basidiospore of the other mating type so that H-shaped structures are formed. These [...] fungal mycelium turns into teliospores and the whole kernel becomes a bunt ball full of teliospores. These balls break during harvest allowing the teliospores [...] these teliospores contaminate healthy kernels, which in turn become a source of disease in the next season. Infection is strongly correlated to temperature

• Faba bean

  and is a firm plant with sturdy stems of a square cross-section. The broad beans are broad, leather like pods. They are green and usually mature to a bla [...] bean and tick bean are all different names for the Vicia faba , a flowering plant and species belonging to the vetch and pea family Fabaceae . The name ‘broad [...] blackish-brown with a densely downy skin. Nowadays, modern varieties specifically cultivated for food production have pods which are 15-25 cm long and 2-3

• Apple collar rot

  General Phytophthora cactorum is a plant pathogen that causes root rot, rhizome rot of strawberry, apple rot, apple collar rot and crown rot. It has an [...] Phytophthora cactorum causes seedling damping off, a reduced root system and black discolouration of the roots. On the foot, dark brown lesions with sharp [...] first, then the whole plant. Life cycle and appearance of Apple collar rot Phytophthora species are very destructive organisms belonging to the Oomycetes

• Damping-off

  and very little of the root system survives. On the border between air and soil or substrate the plant turns brown. A typical symptom of a Pythium infection [...] stripping of the skin from the root cortex with a finger nail. Life cycle and appearance of Damping-off Pythium belongs to the Oomycetes, a separate group [...] especially dehydration. Germination of the oospores is stimulated by exudates from roots of a susceptible host nearby. The oospores germinate and form so-called

• Phytophthora blight

  was a period of mass starvation caused by this disease which ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s. Life cycle and appearance of Phytophthora [...] blight and late / early blight of potato. Damage symptoms Phytophthora causes root rot, seedling damping off and rot of stems, bulbs, tubers, leaves and [...] plant surface and new sporangiophores (structures containing sporangia, a type of spores) with sporangia are formed that protrude through the stomata. Secondary

• Cryptobug

  Pests All stages of many mealybug species. Mode of action Adults and larvae consume the mealybugs completely. Visual effect Mealybugs are consumed entirely [...] infested areas only and repeated if necessary. Consult a Koppert advisor or a recognized distributor of Koppert products for advice on the best strategy for [...] Cryptobug on rock wool slabs or in Diboxes close to or at a hotspot Apply in the evening Dosage The dosage of Cryptobug depends on climate, crop and mealybug density

• Tutasan

  trap Add a small quantity of vegetable oil or liquid soap to the water Application Place the traps on the soil or substrate Maintain a distance of 15-20 metre [...] Tomato. Mode of action The Tutasan trap needs to be used in combination with Pherodis pheromone dispensers. The dispensers release a species-specific pheromone [...] it to the upper central part of the trap Fill the trap with water to the level indicated If possible connect the trap to a dripper and make sure the water

• Pomegranate wilt complex

  (Major cause), species of Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, Sclerotium, Macrophomina, Phytophthora are occasionally associated with fungi. Symptoms Affected plants [...] followed by drooping and drying of leaves and branches. The entire tree dies in few months. Dark greyish brown to black colouration of wood below bark and vascular [...] Management Mix Veni GoKlean at the rate 2 to 3 ml per litre of water and drench 20 to 25 litre of solution per tree to the root zone by making the ring around