Leather rot of immature strawberry fruit
Bacterial leaf blight of romaine lettuce
May 20, 2013 Andy Wyenandt
Potato Disease Forecasting Report 5-14-13 (updated)
5-14-13 Potato Report Updated report. Sorry folks, the information at the bottom of the original 5/14/13 report was not intended. No reports of Late blight in NJ.
Welcome to the new potato report for 2013! As always, we will be tracking DSVs for Late blight development and calculating P-days for initiating the first early blight fungicide application. Remember the threshold for P-days is 300! Once 300 P-days is reached for your location early blight fungicide applications should be initiated.
May 19, 2013 Andy Wyenandt
Protecting against Pythium and Phytophthora blight
With the wet weather we’ve experienced in New Jersey over the weekend and the warm temperatures to follow this coming week Phytophthora blight (P. capsici) and Pythium are likely to start showing up in pepper, tomato, and cucurbit fields. [Read more…]
May 17, 2013 Andy Wyenandt
Vegetable Diseases of the Week – 5/17/13
- Cabbage
- Strawberry
- Processing Tomato Transplants
White Mold on Cabbage
Note white fungal growth and
black sclerotia developing at plant base.
May 17, 2013 Andy Wyenandt
Vegetable Disease Update – 5/17/13
This past week there were a few reported cases of bacteria causing problems in tomato transplants, along with an isolated case of pith necrosis from the field as well as bacteria causing issues in strawberry. There have been no reports of late blight or cucurbit downy mildew in the region to date. [Read more…]
May 13, 2013 Andy Wyenandt
Controlling Basil Downy Mildew
by Kathryn Homa1,2, Robert Pyne1, Bill Barney2, Andy Wyenandt1, and Jim Simon1
Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, 1Rutgers University; 2IR-4 Program
Sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) is an economically important fresh culinary herb grown in the United States. In fall of October 2007, a new disease of basil, downy mildew (Peronospora belbahrii) was first reported in FL. [Read more…]
