Apple Scab
PPFS-FR-T-13: Apple Scab
Authored by: Nicole Ward Gauthier
Abstract
Apple scab is the most consistently serious disease of apple and flowering crabapple in Kentucky. This disease also occurs on hawthorn and mountain ash; a similar disease affects pear and pyracantha (firethorn). The most noticeable losses on apple result from reduced fruit quality and from premature drop of infected fruit. Scab also causes a general weakening of the host when leaves are shed prematurely. Summer defoliation of flowering crabapple due to scab invariably results in fewer flowers the next spring.
Core Details
Publication ID
PPFS-FR-T-13
Status
New
Publication Date
Aug. 1, 2012
Series
Multi-Part Series
N/A
Categorical Details
Language
English
Peer Reviewed?
Yes