Towards management of fertilization to control wheat crown rot caused by Fusarium culmorum.
IPNI-2014-MAR-3
Wheat crown rot, caused by Fusarium culmorum, is becoming an increasing constraint to Moroccan wheat production for inducing grain yield losses that vary between 12 and 17%. This project was initiated in 2014 with the objective to develop a fertilizer management package to control this disease in durum wheat. Read more
Interpretive Summary
Wheat crown rot, caused by Fusarium culmorum, is becoming an increasing constraint to Moroccan wheat production for inducing grain yield losses that vary between 12 and 17%. This project was initiated in 2014 with the objective to develop a fertilizer management package to control this disease in durum wheat.
Fusarium crown rot of wheat, caused by Fusarium culmorum, has become a yield-limiting disease in the dryland wheat-production areas in Morocco, and is usually enhanced in water-stressed plants due to imbalanced fertilization with nitrogen (N). This project was initiated in 2014 with the objective to investigate: i) the relationship between wheat crown rot and fertilization (N forms and potassium), and ii) develop a fertilizer management package to control this disease in durum wheat.
Project Leader
Brahim El Yousfi, INRA Settat (Morocco)
Project Cooperators
Miss Siham Bahaa-eddine, University of Settat
Hakim Boulal, IPNI North Africa
Mohamed El Gharous, IPNI North Africa
IPNI Staff
Location
Africa \ Northern Africa \ MAR \ Chaouia-Abda-Doukkala