Day: 18 April 2019
Hitting the right spot with leaf disease management
Integrated management of yellow Sigatoka and other diseases in north Queensland (BA15003) By Dr Rosie Godwin, R&D Manager, Australian Banana Growers’ Council Yellow Sigatoka and leaf speckle, commonly referred to as “leaf spot”, are established and serious foliar diseases of bananas in the North Queensland (NQ) production area.…
Wanted, dead or alive – ground covers
By Tony Pattison, DAF South Johnstone Organic matter plays an important role in maintaining the physical, chemical and biological health of soils, and is a key component in developing disease suppressive, productive banana soils. Retaining organic ground cover on the soil surface is one of the ways of…