Other Plant Disease — Canada
Nine new strains of clubroot [of] canola have been discovered in Western Canada. [This] shows how important it is to build a multi-pronged strategy for protecting crops, not relying solely on canola bred to resist the disease, said University of Alberta’s Keisha Hollman. The new pathogens in canola across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba [found] in 2017 and 2018 mean resistance breakdown, first discovered in 2013 [ProMED post http://promedmail.org/post/20150618.3447106], is growing.
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