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snow mold of spruce

Published: 2024-11-05 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/05, Spruce snow mold is mainly distributed in some countries north of 40 degrees north latitude, harming cedar, fir and spruce trees. The disease was found only on spruce trees in China. Symptoms: The whole plant and needles on the ground are infected under snow, covered with gray brown mycelium layer, or mycelium invades the host interior, causing mildew and suffocation of trees. The hyphae layer of mild disease was cotton-wool, felt-like in severe cases, brown in early stage, white and grayish brown when it was about to melt. When the disease is mild, the disease is distributed in clumps. In severe cases, trees fall into rows

Spruce snow mildew is mainly distributed in some countries north of 40 degrees north latitude, endangering willow, fir, spruce and other tree species. The disease is only found on spruce in our country.

Symptoms: after the whole aboveground plant and needles were infected under snow, the mycelium was covered with grayish brown mycelium, or the mycelium invaded into the host, causing mildew and suffocation of the trees. In mild cases, the mycelium is cotton floc-like, and in severe cases, it is felt-shaped, and its color is brown in the early stage, white and grayish brown when melting snow. When the disease was mild, the disease was distributed in lumps. In serious cases, the trees fall in rows. After melting snow, the diseased leaves fall off, the stem bark tissue of the trees fester, and the trees gradually die.

The pathogens were Botrytis cinerea (BotrytiscinereaPers.), Sclerotiniadsclerotiorum (Lib.) deBary and Truncatellasp.

The regularity of the disease: early winter and early spring are the main onset periods, and spread rapidly in early spring. The common characteristics of Botrytis cinerea and other three pathogens are as follows: the growth rate increases with the increase of temperature from 0 to 22 ℃, extremely slow and stagnant when the temperature is above 28 degrees Celsius, and the vegetative growth is exuberant below 22 ℃. Mature sclerotia, generally without dormancy. The pathogen is a weak parasite, which will aggravate the disease when trees suffer frostbite, burns and other natural and man-made injuries, as well as lack of light, poor drainage and extensive management.

Prevention and treatment: ① strengthen tree management, reasonable close planting, improve the disease resistance of seedlings. Before the snow cover in the early winter of ②, spray 20% trimethoprim EC, 20% methyl thiophanate, 25% carbendazim or 40% polysulfide mixture for prevention and control.

 
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