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Article

Management of Rust in Wheat Using IPM Principles and Alternative Products

by
Lise Nistrup Jørgensen
1,*,
Niels Matzen
1,
Rebekka Leitzke
1,
Jane E. Thomas
2,
Aoife O’Driscoll
2,
Bettina Klocke
3,
Claude Maumene
4,
Ida Lindell
5,
Kerstin Wahlquist
5,
Līga Zemeca
6,
Marcos Barberena Apesteguia
7,
Biango Randazzo
8,
Svetlana Slikova
9 and
Sarah Holdgate
10
1
Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Flakkebjerg, DK-4200 Slagelse, Denmark
2
National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge CB3 0LE, UK
3
Julius Kühn Institute, 14532 Kleinmachnow, Germany
4
Arvalis Institut du Végétal, 91720 Boigneville, France
5
HIR Skåne, 237 91 Bjärred, Sweden
6
Institute for Plant Protection Research, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, LV-3001 Jelgava, Latvia
7
The Institute for Agrifood Technology and Infrastructures, 31610 Villava, Spain
8
Associazione Agricola Randazzo, 66100 Chieti, Italy
9
Narodne Pol’Nohospodarske a Potravinaske Centrum, 951 41 Lužianky, Slovakia
10
Syngenta, Cambridge C B21 5XE, UK
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Agriculture 2024, 14(6), 821; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14060821
Submission received: 16 December 2023 / Revised: 21 February 2024 / Accepted: 18 May 2024 / Published: 24 May 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests)
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Abstract

Overall, there is a major wish that European farmers implement integrated pest management (IPM), particularly to reduce dependence on pesticides. In the European Rustwatch project, partners conducted nineteen trials across nine different countries during 2020 and 2021 to investigate different IPM strategies, focusing on controlling rust diseases in winter wheat. The trials included the use of varieties with contrasting levels of resistance, variety mixtures, reduced fungicide rates, thresholds, and Decision Support Systems (DSSs), and testing alternative products to fungicides. Sixteen trials developed yellow rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) infections, and six trials developed brown rust (Puccinia triticina) infections. Resistant varieties proved highly effective in keeping down yellow rust infection, and variety mixtures also effectively reduced infection levels and stabilized yields. Rust was fully controlled using 25% of standard fungicide rates, even under high disease pressure. Using DSSs provided sufficient control of rust diseases and resulted in competitive net economic returns due to fewer fungicide applications. The alternative products tested included two biological control agents and four alternative chemistries, which all gave inferior and insufficient control against rust compared with chemical fungicides. The trial work demonstrated that there are good and reliable options for including IPM into disease control in wheat.
Keywords: Puccinia striiformis; Puccinia triticina; decision support systems; variety mixtures; fungicides; biological control agents Puccinia striiformis; Puccinia triticina; decision support systems; variety mixtures; fungicides; biological control agents

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Jørgensen, L.N.; Matzen, N.; Leitzke, R.; Thomas, J.E.; O’Driscoll, A.; Klocke, B.; Maumene, C.; Lindell, I.; Wahlquist, K.; Zemeca, L.; et al. Management of Rust in Wheat Using IPM Principles and Alternative Products. Agriculture 2024, 14, 821. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14060821

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Jørgensen LN, Matzen N, Leitzke R, Thomas JE, O’Driscoll A, Klocke B, Maumene C, Lindell I, Wahlquist K, Zemeca L, et al. Management of Rust in Wheat Using IPM Principles and Alternative Products. Agriculture. 2024; 14(6):821. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14060821

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Jørgensen, Lise Nistrup, Niels Matzen, Rebekka Leitzke, Jane E. Thomas, Aoife O’Driscoll, Bettina Klocke, Claude Maumene, Ida Lindell, Kerstin Wahlquist, Līga Zemeca, and et al. 2024. "Management of Rust in Wheat Using IPM Principles and Alternative Products" Agriculture 14, no. 6: 821. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14060821

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Jørgensen, L. N., Matzen, N., Leitzke, R., Thomas, J. E., O’Driscoll, A., Klocke, B., Maumene, C., Lindell, I., Wahlquist, K., Zemeca, L., Apesteguia, M. B., Randazzo, B., Slikova, S., & Holdgate, S. (2024). Management of Rust in Wheat Using IPM Principles and Alternative Products. Agriculture, 14(6), 821. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14060821

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