Other Plant Disease -- United States
Michigan hop growers in 2018 approached Michigan State University [MSU] with concerns about a leaf blight they had never seen before. This was followed by reports of hop cones shattering during harvest and yield losses in fields with the affected leaves.
Scientists observed a fungus growing in the symptomatic leaves [and] the same on the cones. "The fungus was shown to infect and cause disease in healthy hop plants," said MSU's Doug Higgins. "Genetic testing showed that DNA from the fungal
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8439550&promed&0
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