Volume 45 Number 3 Article 9
Year 1991 Month 7
Title: Field Susceptibility of Twenty Strawberry Cultivars to Tarnished Plant Bug Injury
Authors: D.T. Handley, J.F. Dill, and J.E. Pollard
Abstract:
Twenty junebearing cultivars grown in a matted row trial in Monmouth
Maine were evaluated for susceptibility to tar
nished plant bug injury during the 1987 and
1988 harvest seasons.
A wide range of injury
was observed among cultivars. 'Honeoye,'
'Sparkle,' 'Veestar' and 'Canoga' had significantly
less injury than other cultivars, as measured by
number and weight of fruit showing apical
seediness. 'Mic Mac,' 'Scott,' 'Blomidon' and
'Redchief' were most susceptible.
Cultivars with
the least injury tended to have the greatest
marketable yields.
Characteristics that might
impart resistance were not obvious from this
study, but there is some evidence that tarnished
plant bug resistance could be selected for in
breeding programs.
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