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Effect of Reduced Tillage on Wheat Diseases
Author: Bowden, R.L.., Department of Pant Pathology, Kansas State University, Extension Plant Pathology, Kansas, USA
Date Created: June 11, 2000
Last Reviewed: February 01, 2007

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Summary.
 
Strategies for disease control in wheat under conservation tillage are:
 
Identification of key diseases
Alternate control strategies such as good crop rotation sequence in combination with tillage
Chemical weed control for volunteer wheat and grasses
Disease resistant varieties
Use of seed treatments
Avoiding early planting
Balanced fertility
 
This paper also discusses the effect of reduced tillage on wheat diseases.