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Evaluation of Fruit Bagging as a Pest Management Option for Direct Pests of Apple
Bagging fruit with plastic, paper, and two-layer commercial bags was evaluated for control of insect pests and diseases in an experimental apple orchard planted with ‘Red Delicious’ trees. Results from fruit damage evaluations at harvest showed that bagging significantly reduced fruit damage from di...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6316256/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30513746 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects9040178 |
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description | Bagging fruit with plastic, paper, and two-layer commercial bags was evaluated for control of insect pests and diseases in an experimental apple orchard planted with ‘Red Delicious’ trees. Results from fruit damage evaluations at harvest showed that bagging significantly reduced fruit damage from direct apple pests compared with non-bagged control plots, and generally provided similar levels of fruit protection when compared with a conventional pesticide spray program. Of the three bagging materials evaluated, plastic bags provided numerically higher levels of fruit protection from insect pests, and two-layer commercial bags provided numerically higher levels of fruit protection from fruit diseases. Fruit quality as measured by percentage Brix was higher in non-bagged control plots than all other treatment plots. Fruit quality as measured by fruit diameter was not significantly different among treatments. Plastic and two-layer commercial bags generally required less time to secure around apple fruit than paper bags. The proportion of bags that remained on fruit until harvest ranged from 0.54–0.71 (commercial bags), 0.64–0.82 (plastic bags), and 0.32–0.60 (paper bags), depending on the year. |
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spelling | pubmed-63162562019-05-05 Evaluation of Fruit Bagging as a Pest Management Option for Direct Pests of Apple Frank, Daniel L. Insects Article Bagging fruit with plastic, paper, and two-layer commercial bags was evaluated for control of insect pests and diseases in an experimental apple orchard planted with ‘Red Delicious’ trees. Results from fruit damage evaluations at harvest showed that bagging significantly reduced fruit damage from direct apple pests compared with non-bagged control plots, and generally provided similar levels of fruit protection when compared with a conventional pesticide spray program. Of the three bagging materials evaluated, plastic bags provided numerically higher levels of fruit protection from insect pests, and two-layer commercial bags provided numerically higher levels of fruit protection from fruit diseases. Fruit quality as measured by percentage Brix was higher in non-bagged control plots than all other treatment plots. Fruit quality as measured by fruit diameter was not significantly different among treatments. Plastic and two-layer commercial bags generally required less time to secure around apple fruit than paper bags. The proportion of bags that remained on fruit until harvest ranged from 0.54–0.71 (commercial bags), 0.64–0.82 (plastic bags), and 0.32–0.60 (paper bags), depending on the year. MDPI 2018-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6316256/ /pubmed/30513746 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects9040178 Text en © 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Frank, Daniel L. Evaluation of Fruit Bagging as a Pest Management Option for Direct Pests of Apple |
title | Evaluation of Fruit Bagging as a Pest Management Option for Direct Pests of Apple |
title_full | Evaluation of Fruit Bagging as a Pest Management Option for Direct Pests of Apple |
title_fullStr | Evaluation of Fruit Bagging as a Pest Management Option for Direct Pests of Apple |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of Fruit Bagging as a Pest Management Option for Direct Pests of Apple |
title_short | Evaluation of Fruit Bagging as a Pest Management Option for Direct Pests of Apple |
title_sort | evaluation of fruit bagging as a pest management option for direct pests of apple |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6316256/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30513746 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects9040178 |
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