Abstract
In 1983, seed dressing of peas with fosetyl-Al (Aliette) compared favourably with all other treatments on a field heavily contaminated with foot and root rot pathogens. Experiments carried out in 1983 and 1984 could not establish the reason for this phenomenon. Artificial inoculation with the most frequently isolated pathogens (Fusarium oxysporum, Phoma medicaginis var.pinodella, Pythium ultimum andFusarium solani f.sp.pisi) of sterilized soil before planting treated seeds did not reproduce the field observations, but glasshouse experiments using soil from the experimental field did. Glasshouse experiments in 1989, afterAphanomyces euteiches had been identified as a frequently occurring pea pathogen in the Netherlands, confirmed the favourable effect of fosetyl-Al as a seed treatment whenA. euteiches was in the pathogen flora.
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In 1983 bleek op een zwaar met voetrotpathogenen besmet veld zaaizaadbehandeling van erwten met fosetyl-Al (Aliette) gunstig af te steken bij alle andere behandelingen. De oorzaak kon toen niet worden gevonden. Kunstmatige besmetting van gesterilisserde grond vóór het planten van behandelde zaden met de meest geïsoleerde pathogenen (Fusarium oxysporum, Phoma medicaginis var.pinodella, Pythium ultimum enFusarium solani f.sp.pisi) gaf resultaten die niet overeenstemden met die van het proefveld, maar kasproeven met grond van het proefveld deden dat wel. Nadat was aangetoond dat het erwtepathogeenAphanomyces euteiches in Nederland veel voorkomt, bevestigden nieuwe kasproeven in 1989 het gunstige effect van fosetyl-Al als zaaizaadbehandeling wanneerA. euteiches deel uitmaakt van de pathogene bodemflora.
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Oyarzun, P., Gerlagh, M., Hoogland, A.E. et al. Seed treatment of peas with fosetyl-Al against Aphanomyces euteiches. Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology 96, 301–311 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02000171
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