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PRO/PL> Silvering disease, sugar beet – Netherlands

Other Plant Disease -- NetherlandsThe IRS [Dutch Institute of Sugar Beet Research] and knowledge centre for sugar beet cultivation has received beet [samples] affected by [the] rare silvering disease. Diagnostics have revealed beets [are] affected. Beets with this syndrome have only been found sporadically in the Netherlands. Beet growers in Belgium have been dealing with silvering for a number of years.The seed-borne bacterium _Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens_ pv. _betae_ causes the disease. The main Read more [...]