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PRO/PL> Septoria blotch, wheat – Europe: fungicide resistance

Other Plant Disease -- Worldwide/UnknownSeptoria tritici blotch (STB), a disease caused by the fungal pathogen _Zymoseptoria tritici_ is, alarmingly, becoming increasingly resistant to fungicides and already accounts for about 70 per cent of annual European fungicide use, worth around EUR 1 billion [USD 1.13 billion]. Professor Sarah Gurr, Biosciences, estimated that the disease could cost the economies of France, Germany and the UK, the 3 main EU wheat-growing countries, between EUR 120 and 700 Read more [...]