Growing Healthy Seedlings
This book provides an illustrated guide to the identification and management of fungi, insects, and abiotic conditions that cause problems in Northwest bareroot conifer nurseries. A key to nursery pests offiers initial guidance in identification. Seperate chapters address individual pests with details on recognition, damage cycle, and management practices to reduce losses. A final chapter discusses the intergration of pest-managment practices into the entire nursery operation. Tables of pesticides and pests controlled, a checklist of control activities keyed to the seedling growth cycle, and a glossary of terms conclude the book.
- Cover and Frontmatter
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- Introduction
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- Key To Seedling Damage
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- Damping-off
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- Fusarium Hypocotyl Rot
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- Fusarium Root Rot
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- Gray Mold
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- Lower Stem Canker
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- Phytophthrora Root Rot
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- Seed Fungi
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- Storage Molds
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- Upper Stem Canker
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- Charcoal Root Disease
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- Fusarium Root Necrosis
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- Larch Needle Cast
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- Lophodermium Needle Cast of Scotch Pine
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- Needle Rusts
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- Phoma Blight
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- Phomopsis Canker
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- Sirococcus Tip Blight
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- Tip Blight of Pine
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- Western Gall Rust
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- Cranberry Girdler; Sod Webworm
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- Cutworms
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- June Beetle; White Grubs
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- Lygus Bugs
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- Root Weevils
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- Minor Insects
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- Nematodes
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- Cold Injury
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- Heat Injury
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- Mineral Nutrient Problems
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- Pesticide Phytoxicity
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- Salt Injury
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- Soil Compaction
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- Principles of Integrated Pest Management
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- Glossary
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