Re: [apple-crop] Kasugamycin for fire blight

2015-03-24 Thread Kerik Cox
Good point Vincent! Makes sense to me. Kerik At the end of the day, when a number of trials give results “at par” with strep, I don’t see how we can argue that ‘more bacteria survive’ -- Kerik D. Cox, Ph.D., Associate Professor Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section School of

Re: [apple-crop] Kasugamycin for fire blight

2015-03-23 Thread Kerik Cox
Hi Dave, I've wondered about this. In several of our orchards. All of the epiphytes all nearly have 100% of the population strep resistance even at the start of the season, so in theory no applications of strep would just as bad as several. The predominance changes over the season and it