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Root diseases

 

At emergence

 
 

Damage to beet plants that appears during the emergence phase can be caused by fungus, insects or herbicide residues. Damage often occurs in connection with soil structure or compaction problems. The symptoms of the most common root diseases and how they affect the plants, depending on climate and other growing conditions, are shown in the table below:

Climate Symptom Disease
Cold < 15º C Attacks occur primarily before emergence in humid soil. Pythium

Warm >15º C Attack before and after emergence. Plants are often dry and brown. Rhizoctonia
Warm >15º C and humid Attack mainly after emergence. Blackening of tissue, sometimes extending out on the leaves. Plants lodge easily in windy conditions. Aphanomyces
For a totally certain diagnosis a laboratory test is needed.
 

At cultivation

 
 

Roots of a diameter exceeding 2-3 cm can also be attacked by fungus, virus and nematodes. In the table below you will find the symptoms and climate conditions of the most important diseases that cause root damage.

Climate Symptom : tops Symptom : root Disease
Warm and humid Tops are less often affected.

 

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tops are more often affected.

Rot often starts in the root point or as a belt around the upper part of the root. First brown coloured and later, in a severe attack, black and wet. In most cases the crown is not affected.

Small and retarded plants, bearded roots. After midsummer, cysts can be seen on the rootlets using a magnifying glass.

Rot often at the crown of the root with black spreading out onto the leaf stalks. May also start as black spots on the roots. In severe cases the whole of the tops wilt and the root rots.

Tops are sometimes light green in colour. In severe infections the tops are yellowish and the plants retarded. Roots are "bearded" and if cut through in cross section the vascular system will be seen to be brownish.

Aphanomyces


 
 

Beet cyst nematodes


 
 
Rhizoctonia
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rhizomania

For a totally certain diagnosis a laboratory test is needed.