Other Plant Disease — Australia
Farmers in the Victorian Wimmera and the Upper South East of South Australia are set to be confronted with a fungal disease they have not seen at damaging levels since the 1970s. Septoria tritici blotch has built up to levels that could cause significant damage this year [2017].
Agriculture Victoria cereal pathologist Grant Hollaway said septoria is now the major fungal disease issue in south-west Victoria. “It has really emerged as a problem over the past five or six years.” He said the
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