Improving Peach Disease Management

2024 Research Report

The research team has published a third research report at the sponsor’s website: https://projects.sare.org/project-reports/ls22-366. Here are some highlights: Objective 1: Develop sustainable spray programs with biopesticides to reduce bacterial diseases. Bacterial spot control: In the field trial of the 2023 growing season, a biopesticide treatment and copper significantly reduced the bacterial spot severity on peach […]

Project Videos Now Available

The project team has generated two videos describing some of the newest outcomes. -soil amendments for tree health video -soil amendments for peach disease reduction video

Project Report 2023

The new project report is published and available online https://projects.sare.org/project-reports/ls22-366/

Bacterial diseases need our attention

Welcome to the wonderful world of fruit production science. My name is Hehe Wang and I am looking for new and better ways to help growers produce the perfect fruit. One of the major challenges is called bacterial spot and as the name already indicates, the disease is caused by bacteria. Just like in humans, […]