This fungus is especially common on tomato plants but is found on many species. Plants are infected from the bottom up, so ...

OTTAWA--Canadian farmers expect to plant more wheat and corn this year but are looking a drop in area seeded for canola and soybeans. Nationally, farmers forecast planting 27.5 million acres of ...

Justine Cornelson of BrettYoung Seeds says verticillium is one reason Manitoba saw disappointing canola yields last year. The disease needs to be the subject of more research, since little has been ...

2024 will go down as the year of canola disease. That is according to Curtis Rempel, Vice President of Crop Production and Innovation with the Canola Council of Canada. Rempel says diseases were ...

As more producers are finishing up harvest, an Agronomy Specialist with the Canola Council of Canada is encouraging farmers to look for signs of verticillium stripe in their fields as part of their ...

Verticillium stripe, caused by the verticillium longisporum pathogen, infects roots and enters the plant’s vascular system. It’s now present in all three Prairie provinces. Last year in August, a ...

With farmers getting close to harvest they're taking an extra look at any diseases that could pop up this year, including verticillium stripe. While more common in eastern portions of Manitoba, ...

Breanna Miller/Canola Council of Canada This canola stem cross section (cut near ground level) shows both verticillium stripe infection throughout and a small wedge of darker discolouration that is ...