Diseases and Disease Management

Fruit diseases and rots (pictures)

• Brown rot, Monilinia fructicola
• Bacterial spot (BS), Xanthomonas
  • Management of BS without Mycoshield (GA,SC Peach newsletter, .pdf)
  • High risk of BS on peaches for 2003 season (GA,SC Peach newsletter, .pdf)
  • Low rates of copper as effective as Mycoshield? (GA,SC Peach newsletter, .pdf)
  • Earliest BS symptoms (GA,SC Peach newsletter.pdf)
  • Bacterial spot update (GA,SC Peachnewsletter, pdf)
    
• Peach scab, Fusicladosporium carpophilum, management
  
• Rhizopus and Gilbertella rot
• Other summer diseases; Anthracnose, Phomopsis, Sour rot (.pdf, 113 KB)
• Leaf curl, Taphrina deformans
• Powdery mildew (GA,SC Peach Newsletter article (.pdf)
• Peach rust

Root rots (pictures)

• Armillaria root rot (Armillaria tabescens)
• Phythophthora root rot

Twig blights (pictures)

• Constriction canker, Phomopsis amygdali (GA, SC Peach Newsletter article, .pdf)
• Blossom blight, Monilinia fructicola (GA, SC Peach Newsletter article, .pdf)

Scaffold limb and tree decline

• Bacterial canker, Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (pdf)
• Phony Peach Disease