Conditions influencing the development of sweet basil grey mould and cultural measures for disease management

Elad, Y.; Israeli, Lior; Fogel, M.; David, Dalia Rav; Kenigsbuch, David; Chalupowicz, Daniel; Maurer, Dalia; Lichter, Amnon; Silverman, David L.; Biton, S.; Yitzhak, S.; Harari, Dafna; Maduel, A.; Pivonia, Shimon; Adler, U.

doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2014.06.006

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“…Biomass productions resulting from HP and CB in the BS do not differ significantly. As a matter of fact, increasing soil/growing media temperature results in heat accumulation at root zone level and this can be associated with an increase in yields [28,29]. The dry matter content was of 8.70 ± 0.30%, on average, and it is in line with other results reported for sweet basil by Walters and Currey [30].…”

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Evaluation of Compressor Heat Pump for Root Zone Heating as an Alternative Heating Source for Leafy Vegetable Cultivation

Terrosi¹,

Cacini²,

Burchi³

et al. 2020

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Protected horticulture is a high energy-consuming sector in which the optimization of energy use and cost for heating facilities is strategic in achieving high environmental and economic sustainability of production. The main aim of the project was to evaluate the use of a heat pump for basal heating as an alternative technology to grow crops with reduced canopies, such as basil. During the test, an area of the greenhouse contained two systems of coaxial pipes circulating warm water from a heat pump and a condensing boiler. These pipes were placed above the growing media. At the same time, a separate area of the same greenhouse contained a traditional heating system consisting of an air heater, the solution commonly used to heat greenhouses. Microclimatic conditions and energy consumption were analyzed for the three heating technologies. The energy analysis of the three experimental heating options showed that all of them could ensure suitable thermal conditions for cultivation in the winter period. Overall, the results confirmed the energy saving resulting from the adoption of the heat pump, underlining the importance of this device in terms of the support that the energy-saving goal receives.

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Evaluation of Compressor Heat Pump for Root Zone Heating as an Alternative Heating Source for Leafy Vegetable Cultivation

Terrosi¹,

Cacini²,

Burchi³

et al. 2020

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“…The optimal temperature for conidia germination is 15–25 °C, but the pathogen can infect at temperatures as low as 2 °C, as well as at temperatures above 25 °C (Jarvis, ; Marois et al ., ; Salinas et al ., ). Botrytis cinerea infects the fresh wounds that are created at harvest (Sharabani et al ., ) and BGM also develops on harvested shoots (Aharoni et al ., ; Elad et al ., ). BGM epidemics are polycyclic in nature.…”

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“…()) and basil grey mould (BGM, Botrytis cinerea ; Elad et al . ()) has increased significantly. Recently, severe downy mildew epidemics have developed in sweet basil crops and pose a threat to protected crops (Elad et al ., ).…”

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Passive heat treatment of sweet basil crops suppresses white mould and grey mould

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Sweet basil white mould (BWM, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum) and grey mould (BGM, Botrytis cinerea) are important diseases in Israel and other basil-growing regions. The impact of microclimate on BWM and BGM and on plant sensitivity to these diseases was studied. Disease incidence was evaluated in three field experiments, each consisting of 10-12 polyethylene-covered tunnels. BWM and BGM incidences were correlated with air temperature, relative humidity (RH) and soil temperature data. The incidence of BWM was negatively correlated with high (above >25 or >30°C) air temperatures, RH > 50% and RH > 75% and high (>21 or >24°C) soil temperatures. BGM incidence was negatively correlated with high (>25°C) air temperatures and high (>21 or >24°C) soil temperatures, and positively correlated with RH >65% or >75%. Shoots harvested from plants grown in the walk-in tunnels were inoculated with S. sclerotiorum or B. cinerea under controlled conditions. Severity of BWM and BGM on those shoots was negatively correlated with tunnel air temperatures of >25 and >30°C and soil temperatures >18°C. Thus, high temperatures were related to reduced disease incidence and to reduced sensitivity to the pathogens. Experiments involving potted plants revealed that heating only the root zone suppresses canopy susceptibility to BWM and BGM. These findings indicate that the effect of high greenhouse temperatures involves an indirect systemic effect that renders the host less susceptible to disease. This effect was also observed in harvested shoots that were no longer at the high temperatures, and the effect was systemic.

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“…Greenhouse agriculture achieves great success in many countries like Netherlands (Korthals Altes and van Rij, 2013), Israel (Teitel and Zhao, 1992; Elad et al, 2014), Japan (Kinoshita et al, 2016), and the United States (Burnett et al, 2016). China has the world's largest area of greenhouse agriculture, however, more than 90% of the greenhouses use primitive facilities, and soil culture is still the main method for crop production (Du, 2007).…”

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Growth, Water Use, and Nitrate-15N Uptake of Greenhouse Tomato as Influenced by Different Irrigation Patterns, 15N Labeled Depths, and Transplant Times

Ming

Jin

et al. 2017

Front. Plant Sci.

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Increasing water use efficiency and reducing nitrogen pollutant discharge are important tasks for modern agriculture. To evaluate the effect of alternate partial root-zone irrigation (APRI) on tomato plant growth, water use efficiency and nitrate-15N uptake, an experiment was conducted from June to December in 2014 under greenhouse condition in northern China. The experiment contained two irrigation patterns [APRI and conventional irrigation (CI)], two 15N labeled depths in soil (10 and 50 cm) and two transplant time (early and late summer). Results showed that, compared to CI, APRI did not significantly (p > 0.05) impact the growth and biomass accumulation in aboveground part of tomato, while it enhanced the root, reflecting by greater length density, and more dry mass. APRI produced marginally lower yields, but saved 34.9% of irrigation water, and gave a 37.6–49.9% higher water use efficiency relative to CI. In addition, APRI improved fruit quality, mainly through increasing the contents of soluble solid (by 12.8–21.6%), and vitamin C (2.8–12.7%), and the sugar/acid ratio (3.5–8.5%). The 15N utilization efficiency (15NUE) in APRI was higher than that in CI, which was more evident when 15N was labeled at 50 cm depth. Significant (p < 0.05) 15N recovery increase of 10.2–13.2% and 15N loss decrease of 35.4–54.6% were found for APRI compared to CI. The overall results suggest that APRI under greenhouse could benefit the nitrate-N recovery and increase the water use efficiency in tomato.

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Conditions influencing the development of sweet basil grey mould and cultural measures for disease management

Cited by 18 publications

References 29 publications

Evaluation of Compressor Heat Pump for Root Zone Heating as an Alternative Heating Source for Leafy Vegetable Cultivation

Evaluation of Compressor Heat Pump for Root Zone Heating as an Alternative Heating Source for Leafy Vegetable Cultivation

Passive heat treatment of sweet basil crops suppresses white mould and grey mould

Growth, Water Use, and Nitrate-15N Uptake of Greenhouse Tomato as Influenced by Different Irrigation Patterns, 15N Labeled Depths, and Transplant Times

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