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Long-dormant disease becomes most dominant foliar disease in New York onion crops

Date:
December 30, 2019
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American Phytopathological Society
Summary:
Until recently, Stemphylium leaf blight has been considered a minor foliar disease as it has not done much damage in New York since the early 1990s. However, onion growers in New York have recently seen an increase in the dieback of their crops, and scientists were surprised to discover that SLB was the cause.
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纽约的第五大生产商ion bulbs in the United States, producing over 110,000 metric tons from over 2,800 hectares. Most of these onions are grown on high organic matter soils, where foliar disease management is crucial to productivity and profitability. These foliar diseases include Botrytis leaf blight, purple blotch, downy mildew, and Stemphylium leaf blight.

Stemphylium leaf blight (SLB) initially appears as small, tan to brown lesions that coalesce and extend the length of the leaves. These lesions become dark olive brown to black, contributing to the loss of green leaf area, which may affect bulb size and quality and prevents the plant tops from lodging naturally when the bulbs are fully matured.

Until recently, SLB has been considered a minor foliar disease as it has not done much damage in New York since the early 1990s. However, onion growers in New York have recently seen an increase in the dieback of their crops, and scientists at Cornell University were surprised to discover that SLB was the cause.

"We set out to determine the cause of the dieback problem," said Frank Hay, one of the Cornell University scientists. "A surprise was that Stemphylium leaf blight had long been considered a minor disease of onion but had become the dominant foliar disease in New York onion crops."

Hay and his colleagues discovered that the re-emergence of SLB occurred as the disease developed resistance to fungicides. Their research has resulted in the removal of some fungicides from commercial production as widespread field resistance has developed.

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Journal Reference:

  1. Frank S. Hay, Sandeep Sharma, Christy Hoepting, David Strickland, Karen Luong, Sarah J. Pethybridge.Emergence of Stemphylium Leaf Blight of Onion in New York Associated With Fungicide Resistance.Plant Disease, 2019; 103 (12): 3083 DOI:10.1094/PDIS-03-19-0676-RE

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