Other Plant Disease — United States
Growers in Arizona are concerned with the spread of a wilting disease present in soil that can damage lettuce. Lettuce wilt can kill the plant, if infected early, causing whole fields to be destroyed.
Plant breeders are creating types of lettuce resistant to wilt, and researchers are evaluating how effective a range of tools — including crop rotation, field flooding and delayed planting — might be in combating the disease. “Right now, the only solution is to not grow lettuce in the
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