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2021 Pest Management Guide for Wine Grapes in Oregon
Learn the most effective techniques for controlling insects, weeds and disease on wine grapes in Oregon. Easy-to-read tables list pesticide application rates and timing. This comprehensive publication for growers covers strategies for ...
Should I leave my fig leaves on the ground?
Q: I have a big fig tree in my backyard. I have always been removing all the fallen leaves this time of the year as I was told that any dead leaves could give rise to increase in insects and plant diseases. I wonder ...
Will growing tobacco put my garden plants at risk?
Q: I'm interested in planting a tobacco plant in my home garden from seed. I've heard of tobacco mosaic virus and how it can spread from the fingers of someone who has handled tobacco or from insects between infected plants. ...
Pandemic leads to unprecedented burst of questions to Ask an Expert tool
Questions have ballooned to 6,625 in the first half of 2020, more than all of the questions answered in 2019.
Biology and Management of Beet Leafhopper and Purple Top in Potatoes in the Pacific Northwest
Leafhoppers damage potatoes by feeding on the plants, or by transmitting viruses and phytoplasmas, which are small bacterial parasites of plant phloem tissue. Phytoplasmas cause purple top disease, which reduces yield and produces ...
Wheat virus is bigger problem in Pacific Northwest than previously thought
Wheat soil-borne mosaic disease was first detected in the Walla Walla Valley along the Oregon and Washington border in 2008.
Managing Diseases and Insects in Home Orchards
This pest management guide is for the home gardener. It recommends management practices for controlling diseases and insects in home orchards. It doesn't meet the exacting requirements of the commercial fruit grower.
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Bacterial Soft Rot Pathogens of Potato
Jessie Brazil is a Botany and Plant Pathology Masters student at Oregon State University. Jessie does her research at the Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center. The focus is on studying soft rot of potato. This ...
Colorado Potato Beetle in the Columbia Basin
Oregon State University Crop and Soil Science Masters student Pahoua Yang focuses her research project on Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata. Her project is to determine baseline information for several commercial ...