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Screening Fungicides for Control of Coffee Berry Disease in Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

H. Vermeulen
H. Vermeulen
Affiliation:
Coffee Research Station, Ruiru, Kenya
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Summary

Fourteen out of 43 fungicides were selected, after laboratory screening, for field trials against coffee berry disease. Each fungicide was compared with a commercial cuprous oxide formulation and an unsprayed control, by assessing conidial production of bearing coffee branches and by recording the percentage of healthy ripe berries picked. In assessments of fungicidal efficiency, healthy ripe berry counts gave more consistent results than those obtained by measuring conidial production. The results from berry counts indicate that in these experiments Ortho Difolatan (BSI ‘Captafol’) was equal, but not significantly superior, to the standard formulation used in estate spraying. The annual rhythm of conidial production seems to have changed over the past five years. The significance of this is discussed in relation to the control of coffee berry disease.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , July 1968 , pp. 255 - 261
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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