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Integrated Pest Management for Floriculture and Nurseries

Publication 3402 - 422 pages - $45.00

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California's $2.5 billion-a-year flower, foliage, and nursery crops industry will benefit from the fourteenth and largest of the IPM manuals. This publication will help users create better crops, more profit, and a healthier environment. Integrated Pest Management for Floriculture and Nurseries was written for growers, farm advisors, IPM scouts, pesticide applicators, pest control advisers, and students. It provides information on pests affecting bulbs, cut flowers, potted flowering plants, foliage plants, bedding plants, and ornamental trees and shrubs grown in the field, greenhouse, and nursery.

Well-Illustrated
This IPM manual contains more than 300 high-quality color photographs and 164 line art illustrations and tables. Individual chapters detail the prevention, diagnosis, and management of abiotic disorders, pathogenic diseases, insects and mites, nematodes, and weeds. Detailed crop tables give you a symptom-based guide for accurately diagnosing problems and gives the recommended controls for more than 120 flower and foliage species. Sample pages

IPM Principles and Tactics
Floriculture and nursery managers are increasingly adopting IPM principles and tactics. Benefits of IPM methods include reducing pesticide resistance; minimizing phytotoxicity and disruptions that occur from pesticide reentry intervals; and reducing the costs of pesticide purchases, application labor, and regulatory compliance.

You'll Learn...

how to establish an IPM program for your nursery
techniques for managing pests in flower and nursery crops
how good cultural practices can nip problems in the bud
disease control techniques for root and crown decays, vascular wilt diseases, and pathogens infecting flowers and foliage
how to identify and manage aphids, leafminers, thrips, whiteflies, and mites
management methods for weeds
how to identify and manage nematodes

IPM for Floriculture and Nurseries was written by Steve H. Dreistadt, photographs are by Jack Kelly Clark, and Mary Louise Flint served as technical editor.

IPM for Floriculture and Nurseries

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Integrated Pest Management for Floriculture and Nurseries
Managing Pests in Flower and Nursery Crops: Crop production and IPM planning
Pest Prevention: Sanitation and exclusion Environmental management and cultural practices
Monitoring: Scouting benefits Scouting costs and crop quality Beginning a monitoring program The scout Communication Pest management units How to monitor How much to monitor Selecting plants for inspection How to examine plants Indicator plants Key plants Presence-absence sampling Monitor control efficacy Inspect growing areas Keep written records Use a computer
Diagnosing Problems
Thresholds: Why use thresholds When to treat How to establish thresholds
Management: Mechanical control  Environmental or physical control  Cultural control  Biological control  Chemical control
Sanitation and Exclusion (Make the growing area pest-free before planting  Start with high-quality stock  Keep pests out of growing areas  Growing media treatments)
Environmental Management and Cultural Practices (Resistant cultivars  Alternative crops  Crop rotation  Fallowing  Planting design  Avoid continuous cropping  Planting time  Properly care for crops)
Pesticides (Types of pesticides  Pesticides are toxic  Selectivity  Persistence  Phytotoxicity
Resistance  Applying pesticides effectively  High-volume applications  Low-volume applications  Monitoring spray coverage)
Abiotic Disorders and Cultural Practices
Water Excess or Deficiency: Edema
Irrigation Frequency (Tensiometers Container weight changes Evapotranspiration Irrigation frequency strategies)
Irrigation Methods (Overhead Drip Subirrigation)
Water Quality: Recirculated and Reclaimed Water
Salts
pH
Growing Media: Moisture Aeration Testing Heat-treatment induced media toxicity
Containers
Fertilization
Nutrient Disorders: Nitrogen Iron and manganese Phosphorus Boron
Pesticides and Phytotoxicity
Light: Sunburn Sunscald Excess or deficient light
Container Spacing
Ventilation
Temperature and Cold: Chilling Frost and freezing Greenhouse cooling
Physical and Mechanical Injury
Carbon Dioxide
Ethylene
Air Pollution: Ozone Sulfur oxides
Diseases
Types of Pathogens: Fungi Bacteria Viruses Phytoplasmas
Monitoring: Record keeping Tools and help
Diagnosing Disease: Disease-inducing conditions
Management: Sanitation
Growing Media Treatments (Sterilization versus pasteurization  Steam and heat  Solarization
Composting  Disease-suppressive compost  Fumigation  Disinfecting soilless growing media  Sanitizing containers using heat)
Disinfectants
Quality Propagation Material
Heat Treatment of Plants
Environmental Management (Temperature and heating  Humidity  Condensation  Ventilation  Light  Computers)
Cultural Practices (Irrigation  Water treatment  Drainage  Fertilization  Crop rotation
Fallowing  Deep plowing  Flooding  Planting time)
Weed and Insect Control
Biological Control
Suppressive Soils
Mycorrhizae
Pesticides
ROOT, CROWN, AND STEM DISEASES: Damping-Off
Root and Crown Decays
Pythium Root Rots
Phytophthora Root and Crown Rots
Rhizoctonia Root Rot
Thielaviopsis Root Rot
Armillaria Root Rot
Dematophora Root Rot
Bacterial Soft Rots
Cottony Rot
Southern Blight
Botryosphaeria Canker and Dieback
Crown Gall
VASCULAR WILT DISEASES: Fusarium Wilt
Verticillium Wilt
Bacterial Wilts
FOLIAR AND FLOWER DISEASES: Gray Mold
Powdery Mildews
Downy Mildews
Sooty Molds
Leaf Spots
Fungal Leaf Spots (Alternaria Septoria Anthracnoses Heterosporium) Bacterial Spots and Blights
Rusts (Chrysanthemum White Rust)
Fasciation
Viruses (Impatiens Necrotic Spot and Tomato Spotted Wilt)
Phytoplasmas (Aster Yellows)
Insects, Mites, and Other Invertebrates
Life Cycles
Damage
Diagnosing Problems
Monitoring: Sticky traps Shaking plants Degree-day monitoring
Thresholds
Management: Sanitation
Exclusion (Insect screening  Ultraviolet-absorbing films and screens  Row covers  Reflective mulch  Barriers)
Cultural Controls
Mass Trapping
Biological Control (Pathogens  Parasites  Predators  Kinds of biological control  Releasing natural enemies effectively  Releases in an IPM program  Nurse plants)
Important Natural Enemies (Green and brown lacewings  Predaceous bugs  Predaceous beetles  Predaceous flies  Parasitic flies  Parasitic wasps)
Pesticides (Pesticide resistance)
Types of Insecticides (Microbial or biological insecticides  Soap  Oil  Botanicals  Insect growth regular  Pyrethroids  Inorganics  Synthetics)
Thrips
Leafminers
Whiteflies
Aphids
Mealybugs
Scales
Ants
Leafhoppers
True Bugs
Fungus Gnats, Moth Flies, and Shore Flies
Bulb Flies
Gall Makers
Caterpillars
Weevils
White Grubs
Cucumber Beetles, Flea Beetles, and Leaf Beetles
Earwigs
Mites
Snails and Slugs
Garden Symphylan
Centipedes and Millipedes
Pillbugs and Sowbugs
Springtails
Weeds
Thresholds
Monitoring
Management
Weed Control Before Planting: Choose a Weed-Free Growing Site; Prepare the Site
Sanitation and Exclusion
Growing Media
Steam and Heat Pasteurization
Solarization (Field solarization  Field or greenhouse solarization  Greenhouse solarization  Container media solarization)
Repeated Irrigation and Cultivation
Repeated Dry Cultivation
Flame Weeding
Herbicides (Preemergence herbicides  Postemergence herbicides  Selectivity  Phytotoxicity
Herbicide-resistant weeds  Fumigation)
Weed Control Around Crop Plants: Planting Adjustments
Irrigation Management
Herbicide and irrigation coordination
Mulch (Synthetic fabric mulches Geotextile barrier disks Organic mulches)
Cover Crops
Hand-Weeding (Hand-pulling Hoeing Evaluating hand-weeding and thinning)
Cultivation
Weed Control Outside Growing Areas: Mowing
Screens and Hedgerows
Biological Control
Types of Weeds: ANNUAL WEEDS
Annual Grasses (Annual Bluegrass Large Crabgrass)
Annual Broadleaf Weeds (Common Groundsel Cudweeds Little Mallow Lesser-Seeded Bittercress Common Purslane Spotted Spurge Willow Herbs)
PERENNIAL WEEDS
Bermudagrass
Creeping Fieldcress
Creeping Woodsorrel
Field Bindweed
Nutsedges
Birdseye Pearlwort
White Clover
AQUATIC WEEDS
Common Duckweed
Moss
Liverworts
Nematodes: Damage
Identification and Biology
Sampling Nematodes
Management (Sanitation and cultural practices Heat pasteurization Solarization Fumigants Hot water dips Amendments and biological control)
Root Knot Nematodes
Foliar Nematodes
Crop Tables
Resources: Organizations
Publications
World Wide Web Sites
Suppliers
Suggested Reading: Spanish-Language Materials

Literature Cited

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Integrated Pest Management for Floriculture and Nurseries
Publication 3402 - Published spring 2001
Price $45.00 - 422 pages - ISBN 1-879906-46-5

This publication is available from the UC ANR Communication Services catalog. It is also available by mail; by telephone; at the ANR sales office in Oakland; and at many of the UC County Cooperative Extension offices. For more information, see "How to Order Publications."

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