Statice Diseases
Gary W. Moorman, Professor of Plant Pathology
| Disease | Symptoms | Pathogen/Cause | Management |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANTHRACNOSE AND CROWN ROT | Young plants wilt, yellow and die. Tan to brown spots with yellow halos develop on flower stalks, wings, and flower parts. These enlarge, become reddish brown to brown or black on some cultivars. | Colletotrichum gloeosporiodes | Protect plants with thiophanate methyl or chlorothalonil, or a tank mix of the two. |
| BACTERIAL ROT | Yellow and dead leaves are found among healthy basal rosette leaves. Symptoms sometimes develop only on one side of the mid-vein. Veins may be red. Crowns and entire plant die. Rotting crowns smell foul. | Pseudomonas | Plant disease-free seedlings. |
| BOTRYTIS BLIGHT | Leaves on seedlings die and become covered with gray mold. Flowers discolor and collapse. When dried, infected flowers fall out of the head. Entire flower stalk may yellow and die. | Botrytis cinerea | Purchase decorticated seed that has been treated with hot water and fungicide. Avoid overhead irrigation. Water early in the day so that leaf surfaces dry. Space rows and maintain good weed control to insure adequate air circulation. Apply chlorothalonil, mancozeb, or iprodione. |
| CERCOSPORA BLIGHT | Small reddish spots form on leaves and flower stalks. Spots become brown and the entire leaf dies. | Cercospora insulana | Protect seedlings as well as older plants by applying chlorothalonil or a tank mix of the two before infection occurs. |
| RED LEAF | Leaves redden. | Cold weather or virus infection. | Cold weather-injured plants recover. Virus-infected plants do not recover and should be destroyed. |
| RHIZOCTONIA CROWN ROT | Gray spots develop on leaves near the soil. The crown and entire plant die. | Rhizoctonia solani | To protect healthy plants, apply PCNB, iprodione, etridiazole + thiophanate methyl. |
| SEEDLING BLIGHT | Seedlings are killed. | Alternaria, Botrytis, Stemphylium, Fusarium, Cercospora, and Colletotrichum. | Produce seedlings from decorticated, hot water and fungicide-treated seeds. |
| VIRUS | Depending upon virus involved, stunting, deformed leaves, mosaic, red leaves, red or yellow line patterns and ring spots may develop. | Broadbean wilt, cucumber mosaic, statice Y, tobacco rattle, tomato bushy stunt or turnip mosaic virus. | Destroy infected plants. Maintain good aphid control to delay virus spread. Wash hands and disinfest tools thoroughly after handling infected plants to prevent mechanical spread. |
| YELLOWS | Small leaves, yellowing, stunting, and excessive branching occur. Mature plant leaves may redden. Flowers may fail to open, be reduced in size, or have abnormal color and shape. | Phytoplasma | Destroy infected plants. Maintain good leafhopper control to delay spread. |
Cercospora blight.
Active Ingredients and Trade Names of the Chemicals
| FRAC Group no. | Risk Level | Class | Active ingredient | REI Restricted Entry Interval | Trade names (EPA reg. no.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Benzimidazole | thiophanate methyl | 12 | 3336 (1001-69), OHP 6672 (51036-329-59807), Fungo Flo (51036-329-59807), Systec 1998 (48234-12) |
| 2 | 3 | Dicarboximide | iprodione | 12 | Chipco 26GT (100-1138), Chipco 26019 (264-481), Iprodione (51036-361), Sextant (51036-361-59807) |
| 14 | 1 | Aromatic | |||
| hydrocarbon | PCNB | 12 | Revere (400-407-10404), Blocker (5481-211), Terraclor (400-399), Defend (5481-444-1001) | ||
| M | 1 | Chloronitrile | chlorothalonil | 48 | Daconil (50534-9), Exotherm Termil (70-223) |
| 12 | Echo (60063-7), PathGuard (60063-7-499), Concorde (72167-24-1812), Pegasus (72167-24-1812) | ||||
| Dithiocarbamate | mancozeb | 24 | Dithane (707-180), FORE (707-87), Junction (1812-360), Pentathlon (1818-251) | ||
| manganese + zinc | 24 | Protect T/O (1001-65) | |||
| Combined products | 1 | ||||
| 1 + M | thiophanate methyl + etridiazole | Banrot (58185-10) |
Fungicides and Fungicide Resistance Management - Certain fungicides, usually systemic fungicides, are said to be 'at risk' to the development of resistance if they are used repeatedly. See the Risk Level in the above table (1 = low risk; 3 = high risk). The Fungicide Resistance Action Committee has developed a numbering system in which chemicals with the same FRAC Group number have the same mode of action (See http://www.frac.info/frac/index.htm ). It is recommended that chemicals at high risk be used sparingly and in rotation or mixed with chemicals with different modes of actions (different FRAC number).
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