Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: Tomato ringspot virus (ToRSV) is an important disease of red raspberry which is vectored by the dagger nematode, Xiphinema americanum. A field study was conducted to evaluate crop rotation as an alternative to soil fumigation for the management of ToRSV. The effects of treatments on nematode population densities and ToRSV were evaluated for 18 months during growth of rotation crops, and for 36 months after replanting raspberries. Treatments included the rotational crops rapeseed (Brassica napus) and tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) (nonhosts for ToRSV), clean fallow, fumigation with methyl bromide, and controls in which raspberries followed raspberries. At planting, X. americanum densities were highest in fescue and control plots and lowest in fumigated plots, but densities decreased and remained low in all plots after planting ‘Meeker’ raspberries. Raspberry leaves were collected in each plot and assayed for ToRSV with ELISA for 3 years. ToRSV was detected only in the control plots. Rotations with rapeseed or tall fescue, or weed-free fallow were as effective as fumigation with methyl bromide in preventing re-infection of raspberry plants with ToRSV for three years.
Authors: John N. Pinkerton, Robert R. Martin
Language: English
Topic: Plant Virus Research Studies
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: Zero hunger, Life on land
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: U.S. Department of Agriculture
OpenAlex ID: W1965152136