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Barley Powdery Mildew May 2014 BARLEY POWDERY MILDEW FACT SHEET SOUTHERN REGION POWDERY MILDEW IN BARLEY AND WHEat Powdery mildew is currently under effective control in the southern region when treated seed/fertiliser is used and resistant cultivars are grown. However, care is needed to maintain this situation to minimise the risk of the pathogen developing into a damaging threat to the industry. PHOTO: R KEY POINTS FOWLER, QUEENSLAND YAN Powdery mildew is a windborne fungal disease that survives between seasons on stubble, plant residues and volunteers. The best means for controlling powdery mildew is by avoiding more susceptible wheat and DA FF barley varieties. All barley crops other than those rated Resistant (R) should be treated with a fungicide at seeding. If powdery mildew is allowed to develop in crops, there is a serious risk of fungicide resistance developing as well as loss of resistance in current and future varieties. Using different chemistries reduces the risk of resistance developing. If powdery mildew is detected in crops, use a QoI/DMI (strob/triazole) mix for the first foliar spray. Barley powdery mildew infections appear as white fluffy patches on the leaf surface. These If a second spray is required, colonies produce windborne spores that spread the disease during the growing season. use a DMI (triazole). Infection can spread rapidly from early tillering. Disease life cycle Mildew that survives over summer on Disease conditions stubble releases new spores under cool, Barley powdery mildew is a fungal disease wet conditions during autumn to infect the Most infection occurs during early crop caused by Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei new crop. The disease can increase rapidly growth in autumn and winter. The disease and is specific to barley and barley grass. from early tillering. tends to diminish as temperatures rise and humidity declines. Wheat powdery mildew is caused by The fungus consumes carbohydrates Blumeria graminis f.sp. tritici. needed by the plant for grain filling. Powdery mildew epidemics are favoured by the following factors: Infections appear as white fluffy patches Severe early infections of susceptible on the surface of leaves, leaf sheaths, varieties can result in costly yield losses infection in the previous season’s barley or glumes and awns. These colonies produce and quality downgrades from tiller abortion, wheat crop and the fungus carrying over windborne spores that spread the disease reduced grain size and crop lodging on stubble (note this is only a risk in wheat- during the growing season. through weakened stems. on-wheat or barley-on-barley situations); Level 1, Tourism House | 40 Blackall Street, Barton ACT 2600 | PO Box 5367, Kingston ACT 2604 | T +61 2 6166 4500 | F +61 2 6166 4599 | E [email protected] | W www.grdc.com.au Page 2 Choose the best variety Mildew in the head can be very damaging and can only be effectively treated if it is The best way to minimise losses and slow controlled in the crop canopy beforehand. or prevent the development of fungicide resistance is to plant the more-resistant If the disease is detected in the early varieties and thereby minimise the need for stages, treat to protect the upper leaves foliar sprays. and reduce head infection. However, the pathogen is capable of In later stages, consider the individual evolving and overcoming the resistance of crop and its circumstances including some varieties. growth stage, potential yield, level of infection and weather when deciding This is more likely to occur if the disease is whether to treat. not controlled, as higher populations of the fungus will result in more mutations, leading Fungicides and to loss of resistance. treatment of crops The barley varieties GrangeA, Henley and Yield losses can be significant if an WestminsterA carry the Mlo resistance early infection is not properly brought gene and are likely to maintain durable under control. resistance. Fungicides are more efficient as protectants Varieties with other resistance genes are than eradicants, so apply them before the more vulnerable. disease becomes established. All barley crops, except varieties that are Monitor the crop rated Resistant (R), should be treated with Crops of susceptible varieties should a fungicide at seeding. be monitored for powdery mildew when This prevents epidemics starting in autumn conditions for infection are favourable. and greatly reduces the need for any A powdery mildew infection showing the Early protective fungicide sprays are much later sprays. It also reduces the chance black fruiting bodies, cleistothecia, that more effective at controlling the disease of the fungus evolving new virulences or allow the disease to survive on stubbles. than sprays that seek to eliminate or reduce resistance to fungicides. existing infections. Wheat crops are best treated with infected barley volunteers (for barley This is particularly the case where mildew in-furrow fungicides as seed treatments crops) or wheat volunteers (for wheat occurs on the leaf sheaths around the may shorten coleoptiles and cause crops), which produce inoculum early in lower stems or low in a thick crop canopy. emergence problems. the season; susceptible varieties; P HOTO cool, wet conditions, which activate the : R release of stubble-borne spores; ICHARD mild temperatures (15°C to 22°C); O high humidity – in excess of 70 per cent LIVER, (note that dew or rainfall is not needed C for infection); URTIN low light intensity; U NIVERSITY high nitrogen nutrition; dense crop canopies; and other growers upwind not using control treatments at seeding. Powdery mildew has historically been less common in wheat, but has been causing damage for several years on the Lower Eyre Peninsula and in other areas where the susceptible variety WyalkatchemA was widely grown. Triazole resistance in powdery mildew means that barley growers should not use It also occurs where thick crops allow high tebuconazole alone, flutriafol, triadimefon or triadimenol if powdery mildew is the target humidity to be maintained over extended disease or if there is a likelihood of it occurring in the season. periods of time. Page 3 PHOTO: TABLE 1 Active ingredients R in fungicide options for YAN FOWLER, QUEENSLAND YAN the treatment of barley powdery mildew. Up-front treatments Fluquinconazole (powder) Triadimenol + cypermethrin (powder/flowable) Triadimenol + imidacloprid (flowable) DA FF Triadimenol + triflumuron (flowable) Flutriafol + cypermethrin (powder/flowable/liquid) Flutriafol (liquid) Triadimefon (liquid) Foliar fungicides Azoxystrobin + cyproconazole Epoxiconazole Flutriafol Propiconazole Propiconazole + cyproconazole Prothioconazole + tebuconazole Pyraclostrobin + epoxiconazole Tebuconazole Tebuconazole + flutriafol High powdery mildew disease levels can reduce barley crop yields by five to 25 per cent. Triadimefon Treatments applied at seeding on seed or of effective seed treatments, the repeated varieties, using effective fungicide in-furrow can give protection for six to 12 use of the DMI fungicides tebuconazole, treatments at seeding and taking care over weeks from sowing. flutriafol and triadimenol as foliar sprays, the use of foliar fungicides. and widespread use of very susceptible If powdery mildew is detected in crops Growers should avoid using ‘weaker’ varieties such as BaudinA. where the variety is rated Moderately Group 3 DMI foliar fungicides (triadimefon, Susceptible (MS) or lower, consider Fungicide resistance flutriafol, tebuconazole and triadimenol) for applying an appropriate fungicide control of powdery mildew. immediately to slow the epidemic. in the southern region Instead, growers should consider using A second spray may be required where Powdery mildew populations with triazole fungicides such as epoxiconazole, the fungus persists. resistance to triadimefon, triadimenol, flutriafol and tebuconazole have been prothioconazole, propiconazole or Where a fungicide is required, use a detected in barley crops in WA. Similar cyproconazole. The Group 11 QoIs such different chemical than that used at changes are likely to occur in eastern as azoxystrobin and pyraclostrobin can seeding or used previously as a spray. Australia at some time in the future. also be used in combination with triazoles. Always use recommended label rates. Growers can significantly reduce the Experience in Europe shows that the Group This will help to reduce the risk of chances of this happening, or at least delay 11 Qols can lose their effectiveness very fungicide resistance developing. the time, by avoiding the use of susceptible quickly when used alone. A good option is a QoI/DMI (quinone outside inhibitor/demethylation inhibitor) mix for the first foliar spray and a DMI for the second. Report the infection In Western Australia resistance in barley to some of the older fungicides has Due to the concern of changes in the pathogen, including fungicide resistance, already developed. report any crop infections to one of the pathologists listed under More information on page 4 of this Fact Sheet. This situation arose from the low adoption Page 4 FREQUENTLY USEFUL RESOURCES MORE INFORMATION ASKED QUESTIONS SARDI Cereal Variety Disease Guide Hugh Wallwork, South Australian www.sardi.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_ Research and Development Institute I am finding powdery mildew in file/0010/217468/Cereal_Variety_Disease_ (SARDI) my wheat crop. When should I be Guide_2014.pdf 08 8303 9382 spraying it? [email protected] The chances are that your wheat canopy GRDC Disease Links – Barley is fairly
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