da chuva sobre a tenacidade e eficiência de fungicidas cúpricos associados ao óleo vegetal no controle da ferrugem do cafeeiro. Fitopatologia Brasileira 27:581-585. 2002. RESUMOA ação da chuva sobre a tenacidade e eficiência de diferentes fungicidas cúpricos isolados ou associados ao óleo vegetal no controle da ferrugem (Hemileia vastatrix) do cafeeiro (Coffea arabica) foi avaliada no presente trabalho. Óxido cuproso, hidróxido de cobre e oxicloreto de cobre, na proporção de 0,3% do ingrediente ativo, foram pulverizados em mudas de café 24 h antes da inoculação dos urediniosporos. Após 60 min da pulverização, metade das mudas recebeu chuva induzida de 20 mm durante 6 min, repetidas quatro vezes com intervalos de uma semana. A outra metade não recebeu água por aspersão. O fungicida óxido cuproso sem adição do óleo foi mais eficiente do que com adição do óleo. Com o fungicida hidróxido de cobre ocorreu o inverso, enquanto que com o oxicloreto de cobre não se observou a ação do óleo. A presença ou não da chuva, não interferiu significativamente na incidência e severidade da ferrugem, sugerindo que os fungicidas testados apresentam certa resistência à ação da chuva, com boas características de aderência e/ou persistência na superfície foliar do cafeeiro. A mistura do oxicloreto de cobre ao óleo vegetal com ou sem chuva reduziu a germinação média de esporos para 13,51%, sendo significativamente diferente da testemunha com germinação média de 41,29%, o que indica a sua ação erradicante. Destacou-se ainda o óxido cuproso sem óleo na ausência de chuva por erradicar o fungo, mas que na presença de chuva não diferiu da testemunha.Palavras-chave adicionais: Hemileia vastatrix, precipitação simulada, casa de vegetação. ABSTRACT Effect of rain on tenacity and efficiency of fungicides associated with vegetable oil in the control of rust coffee diseaseThis work was carried out to verify the effect of precipitation on different copper fungicides application and its efficiency for controling coffee (Coffea arabica) rust caused by Hemileia vastatrix, in the presence or absence of vegetable oil. Cuprous oxide, hydroxide of copper and copper oxicloride, in the proportion of 0.3% of the active ingredient, were sprayed on coffee plants 24 h before inoculation with urediniospores. 60 min after spraying, half of the plants received 20 mm of rain for 6 min; repeated four times at weekly intervals. The other half of the plants did not receive water. Cuprous oxide was more efficient without oil than with oil, contrasting with the results obtained for hydroxide of copper. Adding oil did not improve copper oxicloride action.Rain was not observed to make any significant difference in the incidence and severity of coffee rust among the plants. This suggests that, besides copper compounds being contact products, they showed a certain resistance to the action of the rain, with good characteristics of adherence and/or persistence on the surface of the coffee leaves. The mixture of copper oxicloride with oil, independent of the presence of rain, ...

Bacterial halo blight (BHB), caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. garcae, has reemerged as an important disease in Brazil, especially in coffee cultivated at high altitude in the states of Minas Gerais and São Paulo. In this study we evaluated copper-based antimicrobial compounds (CBACs), the antibiotic kasugamycin and the resistant inducers acibenzolar-S-methyl (ASM) and phosphite for BHB management in four experiments carried out in coffee crops in the municipalities of Caconde and Altinópolis, São Paulo State, Brazil. Fungicides to control brown leaf spot (BLS), a disease caused by Boeremia exigua pv. coffea, were also included in two experiments, because both diseases frequently occur simultaneously. Copper oxychloride, copper hydroxide, antibiotic, and ASM mixture with copper hydroxide, and phosphite reduced BHB incidence and had no phytotoxic effects on flowers or pin-head berries. Mixtures of boscalid or pyraclostrobin with copper hydroxide were compatible and effective for the simultaneous control of BHB and BLS. In this study, we showed that August-September is the most important period to control BHB in Brazil and lasts until December, when disease incidence increases, and flowers and pin-head berries are being formed.