Category: Fungal Disease

SPRINGTIME MEANS BROCCOLI HEAD ROT TIME

Posted on by Steve Koike

In California, broccoli head rot problems typically occur in the late winter through spring seasons. For broccoli head rot to occur, the conditions need to be humid and wet. The problem is therefore triggered by rain, persistent fog or dew, and overhead sprinkler irrigation that is applied during cold, wet months (note that sprinkler irrigation […]

RAINS COULD CREATE ANTHRACNOSE PROBLEMS ON STRAWBERRY

Posted on by Steve Koike

If significant rainfall occurs in March or April of this year, strawberry growers and PCAs watching this crop might walk their fields with anthracnose disease in mind. Because the anthracnose pathogen, Colletotrichum acutatum, is almost exclusively spread by the splashing water provided by rain, the mostly dry weather of California springs keeps anthracnose from being […]