Laboratory
assistant:
Carp Maria
Objectives
1)
Investigations on biology, ecology and control of pests
and diseases in peach and apricot
2)
Modernizing technologies to control pest & diseases in
peach and apricot
3)
Identifying some genitors showing a high natural
resistance to the main pests and diseases
4)
Supplying the fruit tree nursery with virus-free
biological material
5)
Implementing environmental protection by reducing fruit
pollution and improving consumers’ protection.
Results
1)
Finding bio-ecological parameters of the development of
some new pathogen agents which have a major importance to fruit
trees (Pseudomonas syringae, Xanthomonas campestri; Taphrina
deformans, Stigmina carpophila, Monilinia laxa, Anarsia
lineatella, Laspeyresia molesta, Myzodes persicae).
2)
Finding the pathogens involved in deteriorating and
premature kill of peach and apricot (Cytospora cincta,
Stereum purpureum, Fusicoccum amygdali, Stigmina carpophila).
3)
Improving prognosis & scheduling methods to control pests
and diseases based on the determination of the biological
reserve and the damage economical threshold (PED).
4)
Designing the complex of pest and disease control in
fruit trees.
5)
Designing (conceiving) a fast selection test to identify
some genitors possessing a high natural resistance to some
severe pests & diseases.
6)
Monitoring the virosis at the level of all nursery
technological sequences based on the testing of wood biological
indicators.
7)
Rebalancing of fruit growing ecological systems by
controlling the inter-specific relationships between the host
plant, the pathogen populations and their antagonists.
8)
Determining the degree of fruit pollution and the
environment based on the introduction of biological and
bio-technical means, and methods to control and decrease the
number of chemical treatments. |