Tomato seed and plants potentially contaminated with tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) From Meg McGrath, Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center, mtm3@cornell.edu: Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) has been found this spring ...
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From Meg McGrath, Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center, mtm3@cornell.edu: Plants of downy mildew resistant sweet basil variety Prospera severely affected by downy mildew were observed in a commercial greenhouse planting in Suffolk County, ...
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From Meg McGrath, Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center, mtm3@cornell.edu: Downy mildew was confirmed affecting watermelon in the sentinel plot at LIHREC on 9/1. This is the third time this disease has been observed ...
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From Meg McGrath, Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center, mtm3@cornell.edu: A gardener in Westhampton Beach posted a report with confirming pictures at the Basil Downy Mildew Monitoring website. Symptoms (yellowing of leaves) was first noticed ...
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From Meg McGrath, Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center, mtm3@cornell.edu: Downy mildew has again started developing early (mid-July) on Long Island, which was anticipated following early detection in New Jersey (6/11/22). Since 2007 when monitoring was ...
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From Meg McGrath, Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center, mtm3@cornell.edu: Be prepared for another season with downy mildew starting to develop on cucumber and cantaloupe early in eastern NY and Long Island as happened ...
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From Meg McGrath, Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center, mtm3@cornell.edu See also Diseases Occurring in Winter Greens and their Management factsheet Several diseases affecting leaves of winter greens have been occurring in the northeast. Recently, ...
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Margaret Tuttle McGrath Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, SIPS, Cornell University Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center 3059 Sound Avenue, Riverhead, NY 11901; mtm3@cornell.edu Detection of Stemphylium leaf spot in spinach during ...
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The ‘Late blight’ of Spinach Developing Now in Northeast. See It? Report It! Manage It! Downy mildew has been found recently in spinach at several farms in the northeastern U.S. This devastating disease has not ...
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