Soybean and dry bean growers across the Midwest and North Central U.S. need to prioritize white mold when evaluating their ‘disease watch list’ for 2012.
White mold, also known as Sclerotinia stem rot, was first discovered in the United States in the late 1800’s on tomatoes. Since then, the pathogen has been found on hundreds of other crops and by 1992 it had established itself as a wide-spread problem in geographies where climate provided optimum condition for disease proliferation.
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