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.