The effect of treatments with plant extracts on the induction of resistance against rust, brown eye spot and Phoma was evaluated in coffee grown in the organic crop system. The assay was set up in an organic crop in Santo Antônio do Amparo, MG, made up of four-year-old coffee trees cv. "Acaiá MG-474-19", in a randomized block design with four replicates. The treatments were: 1. Control, treated with Viça-café plus® sprayed in December, January and Febuary; 2. Control sprayed with water; 3. Aqueous extract of coffee fruit peel (CFC); 4. Aqueous extract of rust infected coffee leaf (EFID); 5. Aqueous extract of lobeira (Solanum lycocarpum) infected with Crinipellis perniciosa (VLA); 6. Commercial extract of citric biomass (Ecolife®). Coffee trees were sprayed monthly from March 4th to June 26th in 2005. CFP and EFID reduced the incidence of rust, brown eye spot and Phoma spot comparatively to the controls. CFC reduced severity of brown eye spot by 47% compared to the control sprayed with water. EFID and VLA reduced the severity of rust by 31 and 27%. The largest disease reduction was obtained by EFID with 61% reduction in incidence of Phoma spot compared to the control sprayed with water. Ecolife® had an intermediate performance, between the best treatments and the controls. EFID, CFC and VLA were associated with higher accumulation of lignin in the foliar tissues, differing from the negative and positive controls.
Hemileia vastatrix; Cercospora coffeicola; Phoma tarda; resistance; control
