After harvesting the seven tonnes of the produce, he feeds the green fibrous part and produce considered rejects to his two three Friesian cows.Powdery mildew,
black root rot and bacteria wilt are some of the diseases that affect carrots.
Jorar OP (2003) Using rotations to reduce black root rot. Australian Cottongrower 24, 47-48.
Nehl D, Allen S, Mondal A, Lonergan P (2004) Black root rot: a pandemic in Australian cotton.
R bunodes causes
black root rot mainly in tropical woody hosts.
But tests have shown that planting strawberries in these flexible tubes significantly reduced incidence of
black root rot and increased yields 16- to 32-fold.
barbadense and development of
black root rot caused by Thielaviopsis basicola.
Soil quality indicators monitored were aggregate stability (dispersion index), compaction (air-filled porosity), soil resilience to structural destruction (as geometric mean diameter of soil aggregates formed after puddling and drying of soil), exchangeable cations, calcium carbonate, nitrate-N, pH, organic C, development of arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM), and incidence of cotton root diseases (
black root rot).
Additional keywords: cracking clay, minimum tillage, soil organic C, farming system, mychorrhiza,
black root rot, long-fallow disorder.