Project Goals
- Improve basic understanding of modes of action of ASD and environmental or management impacts on disease suppression, soil fertility, and greenhouse gas emissions:
- Soil temperature when implemented
- water application and degree of anaerobicity achieved
- C-source applied – type and amount
- crop cultivar choice
- organic acid and volatile production, microbial community changes during ASD and impacts on pathogens
- Use this knowledge to design and test integrated management systems in grower fields for different growing regions
- Develop soil management, cultivar choice and crop rotations – tailored for specific environments and pathogen profiles
- Evaluate productivity, disease control, environmental impacts (greenhouse gas emissions, nitrate leaching) and economics.
- work directly with strawberry growers who are testing and adopting the biological strategies
- document grower experiences with ASD management
- use interviews and focus groups identify opportunities and barriers to their adoption
Popular Organic Farmer magazine articles on ASD including work from this project
Introductory article Muramoto et al_2021_ASD_part1 (1); knowledge and activities by region) Muramoto et al_2021_ASD_part2
