PRO/PL> Verticillium wilt, oilseed rape – Canada: (SK)

Other Plant Disease — Canada
Verticillium stripe appears to be making its way west, as some fields in Saskatchewan showed symptoms this [2020] summer as well. [The] soil-borne disease, 1st detected in Manitoba in 2014 [ProMED-mail post http://promedmail.org/post/20150108.3077863], caused yield losses in 2020 canola crops.
It is found in Europe and Australia and, because it was detected so recently, very little Canadian research has been completed. According to Justine Cornelsen, Canola Council of Canada, it was called