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Taphrina deformans is a fungus and plant pathogen, and a causal agent[s] of peach leaf curl. [1] Peach trees infected with T. deformans will experience leaf puckering and distortion, acquiring a characteristic downward and inward curl. Leaves will also undergo chlorosis, turning a pale green or yellow, and later show a red or purple tint. [2]
Peach leaf curl mainly affects peach, nectarine, and almond trees. Apricots are generally immune to peach leaf curl (instead, the major apricot diseases are blossom wilt and branch dieback caused by Monilinia fructicola in the spring and Eutypa lata in the summer). [4] [5] However, in an isolated case in Hungary in 2011, peach leaf curl was ...
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In addition to its use to control fungal infection on grape vines, the mixture is also widely used to control potato blight, peach leaf curl and apple scab.Although it may be bad for the environment, [1] [2] some organic agriculture advocates allow its use, [citation needed] so is often used by organic gardeners in some parts of the world.
Green fruit rot Botrytis cinerea Botryotinia fuckeliana [teleomorph] Monilinia fructicola Monilinia laxa. Sclerotinia sclerotiorum: Leaf curl: Taphrina deformans. Phymatotrichopsis root rot Phymatotrichopsis omnivora = Phymatotrichum omnivorum. Phytophthora crown and root rot Phytophthora cactorum Phytophthora cambivora Phytophthora citricola
Taphrina is a fungal genus within the Ascomycota that causes leaf and catkin curl diseases and witch's brooms of certain flowering plants. One of the more commonly observed species causes peach leaf curl.
Peach tree leaves displaying various stages of the shot hole disease: brown spots on the leaf with conidium holders in the middle (center) that eventually fall off, leaving BB-sized holes behind (left) Shot hole disease of apricot leaves. The fungal pathogen Wilsonomyces carpophilus affects members of the Prunus genera. Almond, apricot ...
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