Abstract
The effect of barley-legume intercrop in an organic farming system on disease incidence was investigated. The legumes<br />were lupin, faba bean and pea. Diseases were detected on pea and barley. On pea, only ascochyta blight (Ascochyta pisi)<br />was observed. When either pea variety was intercropped with barley, the level of ascochyta blight was reduced. Net<br />blotch (Pyrenophora teres), brown rust (Puccinia recondita) and powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei) (in<br />order of incidence) were monitored on barley between flag leaf emergence and heading. The levels of all three diseases<br />were reduced in every intercrop treatment compared to the barley monocrop. However, this reduction was only statistically<br />significant in the pea treatments for net blotch.
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