Other Plant Disease — Canada
Wheat streak mosaic virus has appeared in southern Alberta winter wheat, with potential to infect spring wheat.
“We’ve confirmed it in probably a dozen fields and people have seen symptoms in dozens more. And in a few of the fields, it’s severe,” said Alberta Agriculture’s Mike Harding.
“We had maybe a dozen or so fields last year [2015] that were confirmed to have wheat streak mosaic but we’ve got many, many more than that this year [2016]. It has really a break-out year.” Some farmers
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