Warm, rainy weather brings vegetable plant diseases

A tomato leaf exhibits early blight circular lesions with concentric rings. (Photo by Raj Singh/LSU AgCenter)
By Johnny Morgan jmorgan@agcenter.lsu.ed BATON ROUGE — Current weather conditions may present Louisiana vegetable growers with great challenges to combat plant diseases. Raj Singh, director of the LSU AgCenter Plant Diagnostic Center, said vegetables are susceptible to a wide variety of plant pathogens, including, fungi, water molds, bacteria and viruses. “Some plant pathogens affect roots, and…

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