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UCCE Farm Advisor
(209) 953-6120
mmleinfeldermiles
@ucanr.edu
UCCE Farm Advisor
Field Crops, Pest Management
(530) 666-8734
rflong@ucanr.edu
California Dry Bean Advisory Board provides funding for much of the research reported on this site. We appreciate their continued support.
UCCE Farm Advisor
(209) 953-6120
mmleinfeldermiles
@ucanr.edu
UCCE Farm Advisor
Field Crops, Pest Management
(530) 666-8734
rflong@ucanr.edu
California Dry Bean Advisory Board provides funding for much of the research reported on this site. We appreciate their continued support.
Posts Tagged: agric
New UC IPM Guidelines for Dry Beans
The Insect and Mite sections of the UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines for Dry Beans have been recently revised and updated and are now available online at: UC IPM Dry Beans Pest Management Guidelines. Authors include UCCE...
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Adult Lygus bug, a key pest of dry beans. The newly revised UC IPM guidelines include updated information on how to manage this pest.
Dry Bean Field Meeting, UC Davis, Thursday, August 23, 2018, 10 am- 12:30 pm
UC Davis Agronomy Farm Directions: In the field across from the UC Davis Bee Biology Lab (same place as previous years). From Hwy 113 in Davis, exit on Hutchison Dr. Go west, turn north at the first roundabout, then west at the second...
Dry Bean Field Day, UC Davis
Southern Blight in Lima Beans
A baby lima bean field in the Sacramento Valley was recently found to be infected with southern blight (Sclerotium rolfsii), a fungal pathogen that's found in many crops. The field was double-cropped with barley and planted late June. Symptoms and...
Southern blight infected lima bean root (left); small tan sclerotia that are diagnostic of the southern blight fungal pathogen (yellow arrow).
UCCE Field Assistant Jesus Martinez in a lima bean field with some stand loss due to the fungal pathogen, southern blight.
White mycelium of southern blight, a fungal disease on lima beans (left with yellow arrow) compared to a healthy lima root (right).
Lima Bean Root and Crown Rot
I visited a lima bean field in the Delta at the beginning of June. The beans were showing what appeared to be dampening off symptoms (Figure 1), and dying plants were leaving large gaps down the rows. The problem was pretty widespread...
Figure 1. Lima bean root and crown rot.
Charcoal Rot on Garbanzos in the Sacramento Valley
A field in Sutter County was confirmed to have charcoal rot, also known as dry root rot or ashy stem blight, which is caused by the fungus Macrophomina phaseolina. The disease generally occurs under dry soil conditions paired with high...
Garbanzo field with charcoal rot
Garbanzo field with charcoal rot
Charcoal rot on garb root (left), healthy garb root (right)
