Management of chickpea Ascochyta blight using fungicides and cultivar resistance improves grain yield, quality, and grower profitability.

ABSTRACT: International production of chickpea is under constant threat from the fungal disease Ascochyta blight (Ascochyta rabiei). In Australia, there is limited cultivar resistance, and disease management is reliant on foliar applied fungicides. Several recently registered fungicides in Australia that combine active ingredients with different modes of actions, have been shown to have curative properties. In this study, in the presence of Ascochyta blight, disease severity, grain yield and quality were measured and the subsequent gross margin for growers calculated in seven field experiments conducted in Victoria (Australia) across three seasons. These experiments investigated the effects of: two cultivars with differing disease resistance (PBA Striker and Genesis 090), and several fungicid

SUBMITTER: Fanning J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9638893 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature