Source: NCSU COOPERATIVE EXTENSION, 6/2/21


It is not very often a photo of powdery mildew is the highlight picture in my blog post during the first week of June. However, in my Rome Beauty block at MHCREC, infections have been fairly severe in comparison to previous years. My my colleague, Professor Emeritus Keith Yoder (Virginia Tech), always warned about fruit infections by the powdery mildew pathogen, however this is my first year actually observing those symptoms-a russett, net-like appearance on the surface of the fruit:

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