Resources

Educational Materials: Detailed Descriptions

Fourth Edition!
Integrated Pest Management for Tomatoes

Publication 3274 - 120 pages - $30.00

List of contents
How to order

This newly revised fourth edition of Integrated Pest Management for Tomatoes offers the most up-to-date information from the University of California on managing pests in fresh market and processing tomatoes. Latest Information Written in the same easy-to-read format as the first three editions, the fourth edition of Integrated Pest Management for Tomatoes has been revised extensively to include the latest information on management techniques, pest monitoring, and available control options. Superbly Illustrated More than 180 color photographs and numerous drawings illustrate nearly 100 different pest problems in tomatoes as well as common natural enemies of insect and mite pests.

Authoritative Information
More than 50 University of California researchers, Cooperative Extension specialists, farm advisors, experiment station scientists, and industry representatives contributed to this manual.

New in the Fourth Edition

• Revised fertilizer recommendations for processing and fresh market tomatoes
• Discussion of weather monitoring and disease models
• New diagram illustrating seasonal occurrence of major insect and mite pests
• New sections on lygus bugs and tomato bug
• New monitoring information for worms in processing tomatoes, aphids, and stink bugs
• New sections on Fusarium root rots, black dot root rot, anthracnose fruit rot, tobacco streak, and several other virus diseases
• Revised information on meadow voles
• Latest information on effectiveness of available herbicides
• New weed monitoring chart
• 16 new color photos
• and much more!

Clear, Succinct Language

"Beautifully illustrated...the color plates are worth the price alone!"
—CAPCA Newsletter, reviewing the IPM Manuals

"written in clear, succinct language with a minimum of technical terms..."
—Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America

List of Contents

Integrated Pest Management for Tomatoes

Growth and Development of Tomatoes

Growth Requirements (Photosynthesis  Nutrients  Water  Temperature)
Development (Seedling Growth  Vegetative Growth  Fruiting)

Managing Pests in Tomatoes

Pest Identification
Field Monitoring (Evaluating Pest Problems  Routine  Monitoring  Weather Information  Keeping Records)
Control Action Guidelines (Grading Standards and Damage Thresholds)
Methods of Prevention and Control (Cultural Practices: Field Selection, Land Preparation, Soil Solarization, Planting Method, Variety, Irrigation, Fertilization, Sanitation  Biological Control  Pesticides)

Vertebrates

Voles (Meadow Mice)
Ground Squirrels
Jackrabbits
Rabbits
Birds

Insects and Related Pests

Monitoring (Sampling  Pheromone Traps  Monitoring in Fresh Market Tomatoes)
Seedling Pests (Cutworms  Darkling Beetles  Flea Beetles  Thrips  Seedcorn Maggot  Wireworms  Garden Symphylans)
Cabbage Looper and Alfalfa Looper
Tobacco Hornworn and Tomato Hornworm
Leafminers
Saltmarsh Caterpillar
Tomato Russet Mite
Aphids (Potato Aphid  Green Peach Aphid)
Whiteflies
Tomato Fruitworm
Tobacco Budworm
Beet Armyworm
Yellowstriped Armyworm
Western Yellowstriped Armyworm
Tomato Pinworm
Stink Bugs
Lygus Bugs
Tomato Bug

Nematodes

Description and Biology
Symptoms and Damage
Management Guidelines

Diseases

Damping-Off
Phytophthora Root Rot
Corky Root
Other Root Rots (Fusarium Foot Rot  Fusarium Crown and Root Rot  Black Dot Root Rot)
Fusarium Wilt
Verticillium Wilt
Southern Blight
White Mold
Buckeye Rot
Pythium Ripe Fruit Rot (Water Mold)
Bacterial Canker
Tomato Pith Necrosis
Bacterial Spot
Bacterial Speck
Alternaria Stem Canker
Blackmold
Early Blight
Late Blight
Gray Mold
Powdery Mildew
Other Fruit Molds (Rhizoctonia Fruit Rot  Anthracnose Fruit Rot)
Alfalfa Mosaic
Curly Top
Tobacco Mosaic
Other Virus and Viruslike Diseases (Spotted Wilt  Tobacco Streak  Tomato Bushy Stunt  Mosaic Virus Diseases  Tomato Big Bud)
Nutrient Deficiencies (Blossom End Rot  Potassium  Phosphorus  Iron  Zinc)
Toxicities (Boron  Ammonia  Herbicides)
Temperature Extremes (Chilling Injury to Fruit  Frost Damage  Sunscald)
Genetic and Physiological Disorders (Tomato Pox  Puffiness  Blotchy Ripening)

Weeds

Management Guidelines (Field Selection and Crop Rotation  Monitoring  Cultivation  Sanitation  Soil Solarization  Herbicides)
Major Weed Species in Tomatoes
Weeds of the Nightshade Family (Black Nightshade  Hairy Nightshade  Groundcherries  Indian Tobacco  Jimsonweed)
Perennial Weeds (Yellow Nutsedge  Purple Nutsedge  Field Bindweed  Johnsongrass)
Parasitic Weeds (Dodder  Broomrape)
Annual Broadleaf Weeds (Goosefoot Family  Amaranth Family  Sunflower Family  Mustard Family  Mallow Family  Others)

Annual Grasses

Appendix:

       Key to Major Caterpillar Pests of Tomato in California

References

Glossary

How to Order

Integrated Pest Management for Tomatoes
Fourth Edition
Publication 3274 - Published 1998
Price $30.00 - 120 pages - ISBN 1-879906-32-5

This publication is available from the UC ANR Communication Services catalog. It is also available by mail; by telephone; at the ANR sales office in Oakland; and at many of the UC County Cooperative Extension offices. For more information, see "How to Order Publications."

Other UC IPM Publications

Top of page