Other Plant Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
Omanawa (Bay of Plenty region) passionfruit growers have lost 70 per cent of their vines to crown rot and crop volumes across the industry are expected to be down 40 per cent after a poor growing season.
[A grower] said it was devastating to see 700 out of 1100 vines die from the disease more commonly known as black leg — a fungal disease that starts during a cold, wet winter and causes the vine to [die] in spring. “It’s devastating and this [cropping] year [2014/15], the industry has lost
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