Completed project
Improving yield and quality in avocado through disease management - phase 2 (AV10001)
Publication date: August 14, 2011
Delivery Partner: The Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
This project aimed to optimise avocado yields, fruit quality and tree health by improving the management of diseases affecting fruits, roots and whole trees.
The work included assessment of rootstocks under high Phytophthora root rot pressure; evaluation of improved applications of phosphorous acid; evaluation of improved integrated approaches for managing post-harvest diseases; and investigation of management options for brown root rot.
The researchers found a number of measures that can be incorporated by avocado growers to improve productivity in the medium and long-term.
Their advice included:
Full recommendations from the research have been made available to growers through field days, via the media and in printed materials.
This project was a strategic levy investment in the Hort Innovation Avocado Fund
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