Alabama OTPS Weed/Insect Questions
& Answers 100% Correct!!
Azalea - ANSWER Gall (Exobasidum) Diag: Symptoms Control: Sanitation; open canopy; prot. Sprays
Botrytis Blosssom Blight; Ovulinia Blossom Blight Diag: (Symptoms); Microscopy; Culture Control:
Sanitation
Camellia - ANSWER Virus
Diag: Symptoms Control: Remove plants
Crabapple - ANSWER Cedar Apple Rust (Gymnosporangium) Diag: Symptoms; Signs Control:
Sanitation and eliminate alternate host; protective spray
Dogwood - ANSWER Spot Anthracnose Diag: Symptoms Control: Sanitation
Holly - ANSWER Leaf Spot (Fungal) Diag: Symptoms, Culture Control: Sanitation
Juniper - ANSWER Phomopsis Blight Diag: Microscopy; Culture Control: Sanitation, protective sprays
Maple - ANSWER Anthracnose (Kabatiella) Diag: Symptoms, Microscopy, Culture Control: Sanitation,
protective sprays
Pear - ANSWER Fireblight (Erwinia) Diag: Symptoms, Microscopy, Culture Control: Sanitation,
blossom sprays
Photinia - ANSWER Fireblight (Erwinia) Diag: Symptoms, Microscopy, Culture Control: Sanitation
Entomosporium Leaf Spot Diag: Symptoms, Microscopy Control: Sanitation, protective sprays
Privet - ANSWER Cercospora Leaf Spot Diag: Symptoms, Microscopy, Culture Control: Sanitation,
protective sprays
, Rose - ANSWER Black Spot (Diplocarpon) Diag: Symptoms, Microscopy Control: Sanitation, mulching,
protective sprays
Cankers (Fungal) Diag: Symptoms, Microscopy, Culture Control: Sanitation, Protective sprays
Crown Gall (Agrobacterium) Diag: Symptoms, Culture Control: Sanitation, avoid wounding, control
root feeding insects, crop rotation Virus Diag: Symptoms Control: Sanitation
Downy Mildew (Peronospora) Diag: Symptoms, Micrososcopy Control: Sanitation, protective sprays
Common turf diseases - ANSWER Brown Patch Diag: Microscopy, Culture, Sometimes Symptoms
Control: Environment, Protective Sprays
Helminthosporium Leaf Spot Diag: Symptoms, Hand Lens, Microscopy Control: Environment,
Protective Sprays
Pythium Blight Diag: Microscopy, Culture, ELISA Control: Environment, Protective Sprays
Dollar Spot (Sclerotinia) Diag: Symptoms, Microscopy Control: Environment, Protective Sprays
Patch Disease (take-all) - ANSWER Diag: Microscopy, Culture Control: Environment, Sanitation,
Protective Sprays
Fairy Rings - ANSWER Diag Symptoms Control: Environment, Sanitation, Protective Sprays
Vascular Diseases - ANSWER Fusarium, Verticillium, Ceratocytsis, Pseudomonas Diag: Symptoms -
external and internal; culture Control: Sanitation, Crop Rotation, Resistance
Armillaria - ANSWER Mushroom Root Rot Diag: Symptoms, Culture Control: Sanitation, Crop
Rotation
Sycamore - ANSWER Scorch Disease (Xylella) Diag: ELISA; culture Control: Sanitation, crop rotation
