• Collaboration With Valto Against Pepino Mosaic Virus

  August 9, 2024

  by exposure of the plants to infected materials such as clothing and tools. ‘You can compare V10 to a flu vaccination’ explains Guido Roozemond. ‘V10 is [...] over the world and currently protects a substantial percentage of the total production of tomatoes globally. V10: A Success Story V10 is now registered in [...] The Pepino mosaic virus is very adaptable and causes damaging symptoms such as leaf or stem necrosis and fruit discoloration, fruit size reduction and cracking

• Bacterial wilt, brown rot

  solanacearum is a plant pathogenic bacterium. It is a soil-borne disease and colonises the xylem, causing bacterial wilt and brown rot in a very wide range [...] Ralstonia solanacearum is a quarantine organism in Europe and considered a bioterrorist organism in the United States. It is a commonly found soil-inhabitant [...] incidence with up to 250% Quarantine measures are in place, including a five-year ban on using a field for potato cropping after infection of potatoes from that

• Wheat bunt

  exact same symptoms. Tilletia tritici and Tilletia laevis cause diseases such as common wheat bunt, stinking smut, karnal bunt of wheat. Damage symptoms P [...] spikelets, showing the bunt (smut spore) they contain, which is larger than a normal kernel. The bunt balls are grey-brown. They rupture at harvest and release [...] and appearance of Wheat bunt Tilletia tritici and Tilletia laevis survive as teliospores in the soil or on seed. These teliospores germinate in response

• Koppert’s Mirical Wins Prestigious Innovation Award

  February 13, 2024

  from a plastic bottle to specially designed corrugated cardboard strips that form a natural habitat for the Mirical beneficial bugs , has created a highly [...] corrugations provide a shelter for the predatory bugs , enabling them to ‘hide’ and better distribute themselves during transportation. As a result, the predatory [...] for monitoring purposes. Generalist Pest Predator Mirical is a generalist predator with a preference for greenhouse whitefly ( Trialeurodes vaporariorum

• Southern European marshland pyralid

  fovealis) is a polyphagous species feeding on a wide range of hosts from 38 plant families. They include ornamental crop plants, such as roses and gerbera [...] the lower strata of the crop, sometimes attacking the stem of the plant as well as the leaves. Late instar larvae burrow into soft woody or herbaceous plant [...] which occurs about a week later, the young larva is visible within the egg. The full-grown caterpillars are 20 to 30 mm long and have a creamy white colour

• Fusarium wilt

  General Fusarium is a group of soil-borne fungi with many different species. Fusarium is widespread and can infect a range of host crops. Many species [...] has many different formae speciales which are each selectively pathogenic on a limited number of crops. Even within one crop, different formae speciales may [...] overwinters for many years in the soil and on crop residues of infected plants as chlamydospores (thick walled mycelium cells) or mycelium. Survival is also

• Plugging the plant propagation gap with Trianum

  July 5, 2019

  mixed with water and applied as a drench to propagation trays at a rate of 1.5 g/m 2 Trianum-G is incorporated in the compost at a rate of 0.75 kg/m 3 Trichoderma [...] antagonism against a wide range of fungal plant pathogens. Koppert have marketed Trichoderma harzianum T-22 in the UK for over a decade, under the brand [...] formulations are available, one is a granular product which is incorporated into the growing medium, and the second is a powdered formulation which is applied

• Legume Pest Monitoring Systems

  April 12, 2023

  compared to just a few days as we would normally expect. Dr Richard Binks, Koppert UK's Agri technical lead, says "the pea midge system is a valuable addition [...] systems that have become unavailable to growers in recent years. Pea midge is a pest that affects mainly vining peas, although combining peas are occasionally [...] application of control solutions more accurately". The Pherodis trap contains a pheromone lure which attracts male midges Apply Four Traps Along Field Edges

• ‘Knowing & recognising’ now available in 4 languages

  December 18, 2018

  diseases is accessible to other parts of the world in different languages. ’As both public and governmental pressure for sustainable solutions for food crops [...] in agriculture and horticulture, the importance of biological agents such as insects, fungi and microbiological solutions for growers increases around [...] control agents, knowledge of their biology is therefore of utmost importance. A knowledge company The English version of ‘Knowing and recognising’ was launched

• Rye

  grown extensively as a grain as a cover crop and forage crop. Rye ( Secale cereale ) is a member of the wheat family, Triticeae , a close relative to the [...] make flour to make rye bread, and is a component of beverages such a beer, certain whiskeys and vodka. It also used as animal fodder.