Beet Problem

Chatham County, June 2003

Diagnosis: Southern Blight Disease (Sclerotium rolfsii)

Description, Biology, and Control of Southern Blight

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southern blight of beets

close-up of white fungus and sclerotia

 

This page last updated January 16, 2006.

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