Other Plant Disease -- United Kingdom
Sugar beet crops are at high risk from virus yellows this summer [2019] because of higher aphid populations arising from the mild winter. Virus yellows is a largely forgotten disease carried by aphids that for many years has been well controlled by the routine use of neonicotinoid seed treatments. However, this coming season [2019] is the 1st time in 25 years that these treatments are not available to protect the crop from aphids, leaving beet vulnerable to the disease.
In northern France
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6368266&promed&0
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