A projected El Niño weather pattern could increase disease pressure during the upcoming Florida strawberry season, raising ...
Producers in the West are certainly familiar with foot rot, but producers and consumers alike benefit from preventing fruit ...
Even if you haven’t heard of Botrytis cinerea, you’ve likely seen it — slowly growing in your store-bought blueberries, tomatoes or even on your beautiful orchids.
These shriveled, mold covered grapes are infected with botrytis, which grows after the first fall rains. Photo credit: Mary Orlin/Bay Area News Group These shriveled, mold covered grapes are infected ...
Despite their bad reputation, mold, yeast, and fungus are responsible for some of the tastiest things in our lives, such as blue cheese, bread, pizza crust, soy sauce, miso, and of course mushrooms ...
This cluster of naturally white-skinned grapes shows initial symptoms of "noble rot" infection, as the white grape berries turn pink. For hundreds of years, the fungus Botrytis cinerea has been key to ...
Botrytis is a fungus disease that infects the leaves, stems, fruit and flowers of a wide variety of vegetables, perennials and shrubs. Infected leaves and stems develop water-soaked spots that often ...
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. I enjoyed Natalie Whittle’s article “The vine details” (Life & Arts, July 7). In it she refers to “the ...