Other Plant Disease -- Madagascar
Commercial vanilla is already the 2nd most expensive spice, but the price is soaring this year [2016] due to poor harvests on plantations in Madagascar and Indonesia. Experts are warning that the lack of genetic diversity in agricultural vanilla, much of it stemming from a handful of cultivated clones that have been propagated for hundreds of years, makes them vulnerable to a catastrophic disease outbreak. Only 2 species of vanilla are used commercially.
Root rot, a fungal disease, is
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