Integrated Pest Management for Raspberries

YELLOW RUST
Phragmidium rubi-idaei

Acknowledgements

Nooksack IPM Advisory Committee

Introduction

Dormant and Pre-Bloom

Bloom/Pre-Harvest

Harvest Period

Post-Harvest

Insect Identification Sheets

Disease Identification Sheets

Fruit and Cane Botrytis

Spur Blight

Yellow Rust

Cane Blight

Phytophthora Root Rot

Tables and Charts

Pesticide Selection

IPM Resources

Pesticides and Water

Leaf debris trapped among canes at the training wire; overwintering site for yellow rust inoculum.  (Photo courtesy P. R. Bristow)

Close-up of yellow rust aecia, first visible sign of the disease in the spring found on the upper leaf surface of raspberry floricane leaves.  (Photo courtesy P. R. Bristow)

Raspberry floricane leaves near the wire infected with yellow rust aecia. Common early season sign of this disease. (Photo courtesy P. R. Bristow)

Yellow rust uridia (pustule) usually found on the underside of the raspberry leaf.  This is the secondary stage of infection and can be found throughout the summer on floricane and primocane leaves. (Photo courtesy P. R. Bristow)