Source:  MORNING AG CLIPS, 2/10/21

Granville wilt (bacterial wilt) is the most destructive, yield-limiting soil-borne disease of flue-cured tobacco in South Carolina.1 The first confirmed report of this disease in the United States was in Granville County, North Carolina, in the 1880s.2 In South Carolina, the disease is concentrated in the Pee Dee Region’s eastern-most counties but is present and increasing in severity in other important tobacco-producing counties.

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