APLICAÇÃO DE LEITE ISOLADO E ASSOCIADO A FUNGICIDAS E ADJUVANTES NO CONTROLE DO OÍDIO NA CULTURA DO FEIJÃO

Abstract

The influence of the application of fresh cow's milk to control powdery mildew (Erysiphe polygoni) in the bean crop in combination with fungicide and adjuvant. The experiment was conducted at the Farm School “Capão da Onça”, owned by the “Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, in Ponta Grossa – Paraná. The experimental design was randomized blocks in factorial scheme 4 (milk doses: 0, 20, 35, 50 L ha-1) x 2 (presence or absence of fungicide azoxystrobin + cyproconazol) x 3 (no oil, mineral oil, vegetable oil) and four replications. The fungicide treatments azoxystrobin + cyproconazol (60 + 24 g ia ha-1) were applied at 24, 31, 41, 48 and 57 days after emergence (DAE). The assessments were started when the first symptoms of the disease appeared, at 45 DAE at the beginning of flowering, stage R5, with approximately 12 trefoil and then at intervals of seven days. Diagrammatic scale was used, analyzing 10 trefoil per plot, randomly selected of the central lines. The harvest was carried out in four rows of 2.5 m per plot to assess yield. The data of severity, area under the disease progress curve (AUDPC) and yield were subjected to analysis of variance and the means were significant when compared by the Tukey test at 5% probability. All treatments with milk proved to be superior to the control with no significant differences between the milk doses. Both in the presence and absence of fungicide, the AUDPC was lower compared with treatments without application of milk. The adjuvant vegetable oil had lower AUDPC values in the absence of milk. We observed the highest yields in the presence of fungicide with mineral oil adjuvant, considering the interaction between the fungicide and adjuvant factors. The use of milk to control powdery mildew in beans is economically and agriculturally viable, with no difference in disease control according to the dose of milk.