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Table 3<br />

'Rabia' attacks - environmental condition relationships (from Puerta 1964)<br />

Province Less affected landraces Cultivated in Relationships between disease<br />

intensity and weather conditions<br />

ALBACETE 'Negros' Highlands Dew<br />

AVILA 'Pedrosillanos' All zones High temperatures after rain<br />

or dew<br />

CACERES None Heat and humidity<br />

CIUDAD REAL None Low temperatures and rain<br />

CORDOBA 'Rubio' 'Negros' Sierra Heat and humidity<br />

CUENCA None Rain<br />

HUELVA 'Mulato' 'Condado' and coast<br />

JAEN 'Mulato' 'Negros' Cold and scarce rains<br />

LEON Dew and rain with high temperatures<br />

in late June<br />

MALAGA °Mulato' 'Negros' 20-25°C with humidity<br />

SALAMANCA 'Pedrosillanos' All zones High temperature with hail stones<br />

and/or humidity<br />

SEGOVIA 'San Pedro de Gaillos' Rain or dew with insolation<br />

SEVILLA 'Negros' High or moderate temperatures<br />

with humidity<br />

VALLADOLID 'Pedrosillanos' Heat and humidity<br />

ZAMORA 'Pedrosillanos' All zones Heat and humidity<br />

279<br />

blight, fusarium wilt and leaf miner are equally important; farmers do not use<br />

any kind of chemical. The 'rabia' attacks can be important, but only after late<br />

spring rains. In Badajoz, the 'rabia' attacks can also be severe. Farmers are<br />

starting to use fungicides aplied to the canopies. Finally, Prof. Mateo-Sagasta<br />

(formerly a member of the 'Etacion Central de Fitopathologia' in Madrid)<br />

advises that in recent years he has not observed attacks throughout Spain as<br />

severe as they were before; 'rabia' is severe in a 'patchy' pattern, depending on<br />

microclimatic conditions.<br />

Summing up, it seems that ascochyta blight attacks can be severe when the<br />

precise climatic conditions are present; for the overall country they appear more<br />

as 'endemic outbursts' than as 'diasast-ous epidemics.' The exact reasons for the<br />

possible decline in ascochyta blight importance in Spain are not known. Possible<br />

reasons are:<br />

1. The decrease in chickpea cultivated area has produced a more scattered<br />

distribution of chickpea plots.<br />

2. Farmers are using fungicides in some areas, increasing even more the<br />

'patchy' pattern.<br />

3. Some farmers grow chickpeas in better and more humid soils than the<br />

traditional ones with fusarium wilt appearing first.

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