Hoong Pung - PERACTO

Dr Hoong Pung
PERACTO Pty Ltd
16 Hillcrest Road,
Devonport,
TAS, 7310

Telephone 03 6423 2044
Fax 03 6423 4876

Expertise:

• Sclerotinia
• Grey mould
• Downy mildew
• White blister
• Rhizoctonia
• Potato diseases

Hoong Pung works on the development of new fungicides and strategies for the sustainable management of major fungal diseases which affect a wide range of horticultural crops across Australia.

Hoong has led and collaborated on research projects that have benefited growers of vegetables, potatoes, onions, pyrethrum and poppies.

Much of Hoong's published work on vegetable crops, including conference papers, workshop notes and extracts from R&D reports, is available below:

VG 05090 Green beans - Rhizoctonia and Sclerotinia control

• Rhizoctonia sub-group identification by DNA analysis
  
  
• Sclerotinia control - role of adjuvants - workshop notes

VN 05010 Onion white rot

• "Stop the rot" media release  (pdf 123k)
  
  
• Fungicide options for onion white rot - Technical summary
  
  
• Alternative carriers for onion white rot fungicides - workshop notes

VN 05007 Post-plant fungicides to control for white rot in onions

• Post plant control - workshop notes

VG 04061 White Blister control in Brassicas

• Fungicides to control White blister - workshop notes
  
  
• VG 04061 final report - extract

VG 04021 New seed dressings for pest control

• VG 04021 Evaluation of cost effective seed dressings - extract

VG 02105 Review of seed dressing technologies for pest control

• VG 02105 Review of seed dressings - extract

VG 01082 Broccoli head rot - its control and the role of wetting agents

• VG 01082 final report - extract
  
  
• Broccoli head rot - poster

VG 00048 Sclerotinia - evaluation of biological controls

• VG 00048 final report Tasmania - extract
  
  
• Biocontrol of sclerotinia in lettuce - Gatton, May 2002
  
  
• Integrated control of sclerotinia - workshop notes  (pdf 375k)
  
  
• Green manure crops to control sclerotinia
  
  
• Biofumigation potential of mustards
  
  
• Alternative fungicides for Sclerotinia
  
  
• Brassica green manure crops - conference paper 2004

VG 00031 Control of Downy mildew in Peas

• Downy mildew in peas - Metalaxyl resistance - brochure
  
  
• VG 00031 final report - extract

VX 00012 Enhanced Metalaxyl breakdown - implications for horticulture

• VX 00012 final report - extract

VG 99057 Soil health survey

• VG 99057 final report - extract
  
  
• Soil Health newsletter- 2003

VG 97084 Integrated management of sclerotinia on beans

• VG 97084 final report - extract

VG 97051 Control of Ascochyta rot in peas

• VG 97051 final report - extract
  
  
• Collar rot in peas - brochure

VG 96105 Control of carrot diseases

• Crown rot on carrots - conference paper 1999
  
  
• Carrot disorders - poster