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Infection Efficiency of Venturia inaequalis Ascospores as Affected by Apple Flower Bud Developmental Stage

June 1997 , Volume 81 , Number  6
Pages  661 - 663

S. Sanogo and D. E. Aylor , Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, P.O. Box 1106, New Haven 06504



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Accepted for publication 28 February 1997.
ABSTRACT

The average infection efficiency of ascospores of Venturia inaequalis deposited on cluster leaves of apple flower buds was 6 to 16%, 3 to 9%, and 0.4 to 0.6% at tight cluster, first pink, and full pink-to-bloom, respectively. No lesions were observed on flower bud cluster leaves at petal fall. However, the leaves on the vegetative shoot emerging from the flower bud were highly susceptible; the average infection efficiency of ascospores on these leaves was 6 to 21%. The infection efficiency was more variable on young cluster and vegetative shoot leaves than on developing and mature cluster leaves. Results from this study indicate that differences in infection efficiency of V. inaequalis ascospores could be identified by apple bud growth stages.



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