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Integrated Pest Management for Cole Crops and Lettuce

Publication 3307 - 112 pages - $22.00

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This comprehensive guide provides practical information for carrying out an integrated pest management program in lettuce or any of the cole crops, including broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, or cauliflower. Illustrated with more than 180 high quality photographs, this book provides the grower or consultant with the tools they need to identify, monitor, and make management decisions for more than 100 vertebrate, insect, mite, pathogen, nematode, or weed pests in these crops. Dozens of beneficial insects and other natural enemies are pictured. The focus of the integrated pest management program is to take an ecological approach that provides economical, long-term solutions to pest problems while minimizing hazards to human health and the environment. More than two dozen University of California researchers, researchers, Cooperative Extension specialists, farm advisors, and pest control professionals contributed to this book.

Indispensable Guide
This book is an indispensable guide and contains sections on:

• integrated pest management for cole crops and lettuce
• growth requirements and development of cole crop plants and lettuce
• general management techniques, including identification, field monitoring, control action guidelines, cultural practices, biological control, and using pesticides within an integrated pest management system
• insects, including seedling pests such as cabbage and seedcorn maggots, leafminers and others; aphid species, whiteflies, loopers, cabbageworms, armyworms, earworms, budworms, diamondback moth, and saltmarsh caterpillar
• diseases, including separate sections on diseases of lettuce and diseases of cole crops with more than 25 individual diseases discussed and illustrated
• abiotic disorders, including tipburn, riceyness, brown bud, hollow stem, wind injury, cold injury, salt injury, ammonia injury, herbicide injury, insecticide injury, and nutrient deficiencies
• nematodes, including cyst, root-knot, and needle nematode species
• vertebrates, including birds, meadow mice, ground squirrels, jackrabbits, rabbits, pocket gophers, and deer
• weeds, including identification and management tips for 18 of the most troublesome species

A Vital Tool

"Outstanding! Informative!...very readable...All in all, a vital tool."
--Crown Packing Company

IPM for Cole Crops and Lettuce

Integrated Pest Management for Cole Crops and Lettuce

Growth Requirements and Development of Cole Crops and Lettuce

Growth Requirements (Nutrients  Water  Temperature)
Development (Seedling Development  Thinning or Transplanting to Heading  Heading: Cabbage and Lettuce  Sprout Formation: Brussels Sprouts  Curd and Head Formation: Cauliflower and Broccoli)

Managing Pests in Cole Crops and Lettuce

Pest Identification
Field Monitoring
Control Action Guidelines
Management Methods (Cultural Practices: Field Selection, Land Preparation, Cultivar Selection, Planting Methods, Irrigation, Fertilizing, Sanitation, Rotation  Biological Control  Pesticides: Pesticide Resistance, Pest Resurgence and Secondary Outbreak, Phytotoxicity, Pesticide Residues, Hazards to Human Health, Hazards to Wildlife and Domestic Animals, Hazards to Bees)

Insects

Seedling Development--Stage I
Intermediate Growth--Stage II
Head or Curd Formation--Stage III
Monitoring for Insects (Monitoring and Control Action  Guidelines for Lepidopterous Pests)
Seedling Pests
Cabbage Maggot
Seedcorn Maggot
Agromyzid Leafminers
Other Seedling Pests (Cutworms  Flea Beetles  Field Crickets  Darkling Beetles  Wireworms  False Wireworms  Earwigs  Springtails  Garden Symphylan  Snails and Slugs)
Cabbage Aphid
Green Peach Aphid
Potato Aphid
Turnip Aphid
Lettuce Root Aphid
Whiteflies
Loopers
Imported Cabbageworm
Beet Armyworm
The Armyworm
Yellowstriped Armyworm
Corn Earworm
Tobacco Budworm
Diamondback Moth
Saltmarsh Caterpillar

Diseases

Field Monitoring and Diagnosis
Prevention and Management (Cultivar Selection   Field Selection  Cultural Practices and Sanitation  Pesticides)
Damping Off of Lettuce or Cole Crops
Diseases of Cole Crops (Clubroot  Phytophthora Stem and Root Rot  Verticillium Wilt  Fusarium Wilt or Yellows of Cabbage  Sclerotinia Rot or White Mold  Black Rot  Bacterial Leafspot of Cauliflower  Black Leg  Downy Mildew of Cole Crops  Ringspot   Alternaria Leafspot  White Spot  Mosaic or Virus Diseases)
Diseases of Lettuce (Sclerotinia Drop  Botrytis Rot  Bottom Rot  Corky Root  Downy Mildew of Lettuce  Powdery Mildew of Lettuce  Big Vein  Anthracnose  Varnish Spot   Lettuce Infectious Yellows  Beet Western Yellows  Lettuce Mosaic  Aster Yellows)

Abiotic Disorders

Tipburn
Riceyness of Cauliflower
Brown Bud of Broccoli
Hollow Stem of Cole Crops
Wind Injury
Cold Injury
Salt Injury
Ammonia Injury
Herbicide Injury
Insecticide Injury
Nutrient Deficiencies (Nitrogen  Phosphorous  Molybdenum)

Nematodes

Cyst Nematodes
Root-Knot Nematodes
Needle Nematode
Management and Sampling Guidelines for Nematodes (Qualitative Sampling  Quantitative Sampling  Treatment Guidelines)
Management Methods (Sanitation  Cultural Tactics  Resistant Cultivars  Rotation  Chemical Control)

Vertebrates

Birds
Meadow Mice
Ground Squirrels
Jackrabbits
Rabbits
Pocket Gophers
Deer

Weeds

Field Selection and Rotation
Cultivation
Water Management
Sanitation
Herbicides
Monitoring
Weed Species and Identification
Weeds in the Sunflower Family (Common Groundsel  Prickly Lettuce  Annual Sowthistle)
Weeds in the Mustard Family (London Rocket  Shepherdspurse  Mustards  Wild Radish)
Other Broadleaf Annual Weeds (Cheeseweed  Nightshades  Burning Nettle  Lambsquarters  Nettleleaf Goosefoot  Pigweeds  Common Purslane  Chickweed  Prostate Knotweed)
Annual Grasses
Perennial Weeds (Nutsedges  Field Bindweed)

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Integrated Pest Management for Cole Crops and Lettuce
Publication 3307 - Published 1992
Price $22.00 - 112 pages - ISBN 0-931876-70-2

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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