In the vegetable garden, plants such as tomatoes, strawberries, potatoes, peppers, eggplant and various melons are susceptible to verticillium wilt. Luckily, scientists continued to develop ...

A widespread soil-borne disease, verticillium wilt can afflict maples, redbud, ash, euonymus, tomatoes and strawberries. Symptoms: One side of the plant wilts or dies. In trees, leaves turn yellow ...

Tomato plants with Verticillium wilt show symptoms of yellowing and wilting of leaves, often starting on one side of the plant. Gerald Holmes, Strawberry Center, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org.

One exception is Verticillium wilt, a fungal disease Common in Klamath Basin landscapes. As is typical of a plant disease with a wide range of host plants, Verticillium doesn’t look the same in ...

Verticillium wilt disease plugs the internal tubes that carry water from a tree’s roots to the leaves. It commonly infects a single branch, causing it to die and appear like it is not getting ...

As Verticillium spreads more quickly in weaker plants, follow these sound cultural practices: Prune dead branches to discourage infection by other fungi. Disinfect tools between cuts in a 10 ...

Plant resistant species in any area where a plant died of verticillium wilt. All conifers are resistant, as are birch, sycamore, hawthorn and some dogwoods. Or plant in containers ...

If a tree does die, only trees or plants resistant to verticillium wilt should be replanted in the area. “Proper irrigation” is always difficult to gauge.

The damage done directly by the fungus and indirectly by the plant can clog the water conducting tissue in the branch. If it chokes a branch, the tree may live for years, losing one branch at a time.

The roadside plants apparently start growing when seeds blow from fields or fall out of trucks carrying the crops to market. In the plains of Canada, where canola is widely grown, roadside biotech ...