Table 2. Disease evaluations on Redhaven peach fruit under different pesticide treatment schedules, University of Massachusetts Horticultural Research Center, 1996.*

At harvest

Postharvest


Treatment

Brown rot
incidence (%)

Brown rot
severity

Incidence of
other rots (%)

Severity of
other rots

Brown rot
incidence (%)

Incidence of
other rots (%)

Full spray

2 b

0.02 c

0 b

0.01 b

24 b

14 a

Reduced spray

4 b

0.11 b

0 b

0.00 b

21 b

21 a

Low spray

8 a

0.19 a

2 a

0.05 a

31 b

14 a

No spray

4 b

0.07 c

0 b

0.00 b

49 a

9 a

* Severity: 1 = least severe, 5 = most severe. Means in each column followed by the same letter do not differ significantly from each other at odds of 19:1.