Other Plant Disease -- United Kingdom
A soil-borne pathogen found in wheat and oilseed rape crops can cut rapeseed yields by up to 50%. The pathogenic fungus _Rhizoctonia solani_ results in pre- and post-germination damping off, causing seed decay and seedling death.
Rumina Ray, University of Nottingham, explains that the pathogen has been underestimated and is now a clear problem for UK oilseed rape growers. "[It] is an overlooked soil-borne disease and its effect on oilseed rape has been ignored. Crop losses attributed to
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6762228&promed&0
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