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Diseases & Disorders
Featured stories covering diseases and disorders appear in this issue.
No apple releases imminent
Washington State University’s apple breeder, Dr. Kate Evans, is not recommending that the university release another variety for at least a year or two. The
Resistant rootstocks key to surviving fireblight
Within the next two years, Cornell University plant pathologist Herb Aldwinckle hopes scientists and the tree fruit nurseries will have solved the problems of propagating
Washington’s grape disease worries grow
Symptoms of grape fanleaf disease (shown on the leaf on the left) include vein banding and yellowing, possibly resembling herbicide-damaged leaves. Washington State University Grapevine
WA 2 ready for commercial plantings
Washington growers can now obtain licenses to plant WA 2 on a commercial basis. WA 2 is the first apple variety from Washington State University’s
WA 2 traits, evaluation and commercialization
The evaluation and commercialization process Phase 1: Initial seedling selection and evaluation by WSU Phase 2: Small-scale on-farm trials with five trees at about
Export funding increase unlikely
Todd Fryhover, president of the Washington Apple Commission, is concerned about a possible decrease in federal funding for export promotions. Photo by Geraldine Warner Since
More export focus needed
Because of an increasingly competitive U.S. market, the salvation of the Washington apple industry will be overseas markets, and the industry will need to become
Get it right at planting
To achieve a yield of 50 to 70 bins per acre, the canopy of a new orchard must be established by the third season after
Education for migrant families
Coordinators of a migrant education program in Yakima, Washington, are hoping that fruit growers will encourage their employees and their families to take part. The
Little cherries, little flavor
The cool weather of 2010 highlighted a growing concern about little cherries showing up in some orchards. Follow-up testing by Washington State University confirmed that
Glory be
Glory, a chance seedling discovered at Stemilt Hill, is a large, firm, sweet cherry that ripens after most other varieties. (Courtesy Howard Floyd) Gordon Goodwin’s
A program for scab control
(Courtesy Kerik Cox/Cornell University) Growers producing apples in the cool, damp northeast quadrant of the United States need to take a step-by-careful-step approach to apple
BUYER BEWARE: Certified may not be clean
Recent Washington State grower experiences of finding disease in a vineyard planted with certified stock have highlighted the weaknesses of state plant health certification programs
Watch for crown gall and vine decline
Vineyardists in the Pacific Northwest have been relatively lucky regarding the number of grape diseases they have to worry about. But recent experiences indicate that
Opportunistic fungi
Disease organisms invade injured tissue and develop cankers that release spores. Some red strains of McIntosh are susceptible, for reasons unknown, to opportunistic diseases that
Scab-resistant varieties need protection, too
When apple breeders in New Jersey, Indiana, and Illinois came together in 1926 to form the Purdue-Rutgers-Illinois university collaboration called PRI, their number-one goal was
Tackling scab resistance
Apple growers in the Midwest who stuck by the “old ways” of applying fungicides have not faced the problem of apple scab becoming resistant to
Last Bite — Discovering Gold
Top: The russet-resistant Smoothee, discovered in 1958, is the widest planted strain of Golden Delicious in the United States. (Photo courtesy of Willow Drive Nursery.)
Good Job
John Carter crowned king The Dalles, Oregon, cherry grower John Carter was named 2010 Cherry King during the annual Cherry Institute meeting held in Yakima,