Other Plant Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
With the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long failing to control witches’ broom when it affected longan trees [ProMED-mail post 20110818.2503], the disease has now spread to the rambutan crop, causing farmers severe losses.
In recent years the disease, which causes an abnormal brush-like cluster of drafted, weak shoots arising from or near the same point on branches and affects fruiting, has infected large areas of longan in the delta. Vinh Long was among the worst hit during the peak
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