Disease management is a principle activity for growers of all types of lettuce. Viral, bacterial, and most importantly, fungal diseases can seriously impact quality and yield.

Lettuce Diseases: Publications

Alvarado, M., Cox, C. A., and Pryor, B. M. Optimization of Coniothyrium minitans applications for enhanced efficacy of biocontrol against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Biological Control, in review.

Chitrampalam, P. and Pryor, B. M. 2013. Population and spatial pattern of sclerotia of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in desert lettuce production fields of Arizona and California. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, 35:494-502.

Chitrampalam, P., Turini, T. A., Matheron, M. E., and Pryor, B. M. 2010. Effect of sclerotium density and irrigation on disease incidence and on efficacy of Coniothyrium minitans in suppressing lettuce drop caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Plant Dis. 94:1118-1124

Chitrampalam, P., C.A. Cox, C. A., Turini, T. A., and Pryor, B. M. 2010. Efficacy of Coniothyrium minitans on lettuce drop caused by Sclerotinia minor in desert agroecosystems. Biological Control 55:92-96.

Hayes, R. J., Wu, B. M., Pryor, B. M., Chitrampalam, C., and, Subbarao, K. V. 2010. Assessment of Resistance in Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) to Mycelial and Ascospore Infection by Sclerotinia minor Jagger and S. sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary. HortScience 45: 333- 341.

Mbofung, G. C. and Pryor, B. M. 2010. A PCR-Based Assay for Detection of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae in Lettuce Seed. Plant Dis. 94:860-866.

Chitrampalam, P., Figuli, P. J., Matheron, M. E., Subbarao, K. V., and Pryor, B. M. 2008. Biocontrol of lettuce drop caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and S. minor in desert agroecosystems. Plant Dis. 92:1625-1634.

Mbofung, G. Y., Hong, S. G., and Pryor, B. M. 2007. Phylogeny of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae inferred from mitochondrial small subunit, elongation factor 1-a, and nuclear ribosomal intergenic spacer sequence data. Phytopathology 97:87-98.