Experimental sugar beet cultivars evaluated for rhizomania resistance and storability in Idaho, 2012

Strausbaugh, C.A. and Eujayl, Imad A. and Rearick, E. (2013) Experimental sugar beet cultivars evaluated for rhizomania resistance and storability in Idaho, 2012. Plant Disease Management Reports. 7:FC115. 14 August 2013.

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Abstract

Rhizomania caused by Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV) and storage losses are serious sugar beet production problems. To identify sugar beet cultivars with resistance to BNYVV and evaluate storability, 26 experimental cultivars were screened by growing them in a sugar beet field infested with BNYVV in Kimberly, ID during the 2012 growing season in a randomized complete block design with 4 replications. At harvest on 3 October 2012, roots were dug and evaluated for symptoms of rhizomania and also placed in an indoor commercial sugar beet storage building. After 134 days in storage, samples were evaluated for surface rot, weight loss, and sucrose loss. Surface root rot ranged from 34 to 90%, weight loss ranged from 8.4 to 15.4%, sucrose losses ranged from 33 to 72%, and estimated recoverable sucrose ranged from 1,997 to 7,601 lb/A. Given these response ranges, selecting cultivars for rhizomania resistance and combining it with storability will lead to considerable economic benefit for the sugar beet industry.

Item Type:	Article
NWISRL Publication Number:	1471
Subjects:	Irrigated crops > Sugarbeet > Rhizomania Irrigated crops > Sugarbeet > Storage Irrigated crops > Sugarbeet
Depositing User:	Users 6 not found.
Date Deposited:	22 Aug 2013 17:03
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2014 14:45
Item ID:	1508
URI:	https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/1508