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COST 838 meeting. Pisa, ITALY ,Octubre 2002

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Compared effects of fungicides and Glomus aggregatum on the white root rot caused by Armillaria mellea in grapevine rootstocks

Mansilla J.P.¹², Vilariño A.³ and Sainz M.J.²
1 Estación Fitopatolóxica do Areeiro, Excma. Diputación Provincial de Pontevedra, Subida a la Robleda s/n, E-36153 Pontevedra, Spain
2 Departamento de Producción Vegetal, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Universitario, E-27002 Lugo, Spain
3 Instituto de Investigaciones Agrobiológicas de Galicia, CSIC, POB 122, E-15780 Santiago de Compostela, Spain




ABSTRACT:      Armillaria mellea is an aggresive pathogen for grapevine, causing a disease called white root rot. In field practice, the application of cubiet is advised when the first symtomatic plants are observed in infected vineyards, although the efficacy of this fungicide to actually control the disease is very low. A growth chamber experiment was designed to compare the effects of two fungicides, cubiet and cyproconazol, and the inoculation of Glomus aggregatum on the white root rot caused by A. mellea in three grapevine rootstocks, namely 196-17 Castel, 110 Richter and 161-49 Couderc. Previous in vitro studies had shown that cyproconazol had a fungicide effect on the growth of A. mellea mycelium. Cuttings of each rootstock were treated with IBA and inserted in two rooting beds of sand-vermiculite. One of the beds received and inoculum of G. aggregatum previously raised on Tagetes erecta. For the experiment, mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal well-rooted cuttings were transferred to 1.5 L pots (one cutting per pot) filled with an unsterilized soil. Half of the plants were inoculated with an isolate of A. mellea previously obtained from a field-infected grapevine. Two fungicides treatments, cubiet and cyproconazol, were established for rootstocks 196-17 Castel and 110 Richter. The rootstock 161-49 Couderc provided a lesser number of well-rooted cuttings and only the effects of the cyproconazol treatment were investigated.