Biological seed treatment

treatment enhances crop yields while helping plants to fight off plant pathogens and minimize biotic stress; The plant growth promoting microorganisms colonize [...] abiotic stress, like drought-, salinity stress, and improve the uptake of plant nutrients. What is biological seed treatment? Biological seed treatment consists [...] ingredients that can include microbes like fungi and bacteria, as well as plant extracts and algae extracts. Biological substances are applied to the seed

Caterpillars

to detect and control. In addition to consumption of the plant, caterpillars also spoil the plant with the large quantities of frass they leave behind. Life [...] greenhouse and field crops. Their feeding reduces photosynthesis, weakens plants and directly affects yield and quality. Effective caterpillar control is [...] caterpillars have biting and chewing mouthparts and can devour large amounts of plant tissue. Many species cause damage to crops. The most harmful caterpillars

Tomato russet mite

of the plant family Solanaceae may be affected to a lesser extent. Damage symptoms Damage is caused by the mites sucking out the contents of plant cells [...] Eriophyidae. It does not produce galls but lives freely (vagrant) on tomato plants. Aculops lycopersici was detected for the first time in Australia and is [...] leaves dry out quickly. The damage is first seen on the lower part of the plant and moves upwards as the mites ascend. Life cycle and appearance of tomato

Black sigatoka disease

puddles and ensuring optimal ventilation in the crop Prevent plant diseases by optimizing plant potential and crop resilience.

Soybean

blue, yellow or green. When planting soybean plants, there is considerably more protein produced per acre than when planting other crops. Major producers [...] Asia. It is extensively cultivated for its edible beans. The fruit of the plant is a hairy pod, that grows clustered in small bunches of three to five pods

Trianum effectively controls Pythium in cucumber

grams of Trianium-G on each mat before putting out the new plants in ‘duo’ pots (two plants in one rockwool cube). He decided to do this in response to [...] Cucumber grower Kees Hendriks (Qcumber) explains how his plant protection strategy has moved from integrated to ‘almost’ biological, using fewer and fewer [...] He has been using Trianum for the past two years in order to protect his plants’ roots. ‘I started using Trianum-G because of my crop’s susceptibility to

Broccoli

About Broccoli is a tasty, green plant. When it comes to botanical classification, the broccoli plant is categorized as part of the Italica cultivar group [...] r, which belongs to a different cultivar group of the same species. The plant has a large, flowering head that is usually green. The head looks a bit like

Rose

flowers the plant bears. There are more than one hundred rose species and thousands of different cultivars. The rose is a woody, perennial plant which usually [...] climbing or trailing with a stem that has sharp thorns. The flowers of the rose plant can vary in shape and size, but are often ornate and bright coloured. Colours

Onion thrips

tabaci) is distributed throughout the world. It is found outdoors on many plants and particularly damaging on onions, leek, and in greenhouses on cucurbits [...] flower petals and in the soft parts of stalks. They are inserted into the plant tissue with a saw-like ovipositor. Larvae are light to yellowish green in [...] feed and only move if disturbed. Damage symptoms Thrips cause damage to plants by piercing the cells of the surface tissues and sucking out their contents

Melon

About A melon can be any one of several plants belonging to the family of Cucurbitaceae . The melon plant produces a usually sweet and edible, fleshy fruit [...] fruit. The term "melon" is used for the plant, but also to identify the fruit. Botanically speaking, the melon (the fruit) is actually a berry, or more