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Home → Publications → American Chestnut Proceedings → 1978 → Blight Development and Methyl-2-Benzimidazole Carbamate Levels in Bark Tissues of American Chestnut Trees Following Soil Injection of Benomyl

Blight Development and Methyl-2-Benzimidazole Carbamate Levels in Bark Tissues of American Chestnut Trees Following Soil Injection of Benomyl

If a method of injecting systemic fungicides into the soil for control of chestnut blight can be perfected, there are several advantages to this approach. To evaluate the efficacy of this, America chestnut stump sprouts were soil-injected with various levels of aqueous solution of benomyl using different techniques. The potential for chemical control of bark pathogens by soil injection of fungitoxicants was demonstrated for tap-rooted trees such as American chestnut. Water extraction would appear to be the method of choice for determining available levels of fungitoxicants in plant tissues.


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Author(s): John Rush Elkins, Gary J. Griffin, R. Jay Stipes

Publication: American Chestnut Proceedings - 1978