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Cabbage clubroot is a disease of Brassicaceae (mustard family or cabbage family) caused by the soil-borne Plasmodiophora brassicae. [9] The disease first appears scattered in fields, but in successive seasons it will infect the entire field, reducing the yield significantly and sometimes resulting in no yield at all.
Leaf scorch (also called leaf burn, leaf wilt, and sun scorch) is a browning of plant tissues, including leaf margins and tips, and yellowing or darkening of veins which may lead to eventual wilting and abscission of the leaf.
Leaf spots are a type of plant disease that are usually caused by pathogens and sometimes other cases such as herbicide injuries. [3] Leaf spots can vary in size, shape, and color depending on the age and type of the cause or pathogen.
Alternaria leaf spot or Alternaria leaf blight are a group of fungal diseases in plants, that have a variety of hosts. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The diseases infects common garden plants, such as cabbage, and are caused by several closely related species of fungi. [ 4 ]
Leptosphaeria maculans causes phoma stem canker or blackleg. Symptoms generally include basal stem cankers, small grey oval lesions on the leaf tissue and root rot (as the fungus can directly penetrate roots). [3] L. maculans infects a wide variety of Brassica crops including cabbage (Brassica oleracea) and oilseed rape (Brassica napus).
In 2007, the cabbage crop in the US exceed $413M (1.4M+ tons). [18] Black rot is considered the most important disease of cabbage and other crucifers because Xcc infections may not become apparent until the warm summer months (well after planting), the pathogen spreads rapidly, and losses due to the disease may exceed 50% in warm, wet climates. [6]
This plant loses its leaves annually but can live up to 20 years. For what starts as a small hooded flower, skunk cabbage has a massive root system. A few inches below the surface, thick roots ...
Downy mildew is a disease of major importance on the horticultural Brassica species. [1] It is most serious on the flowerhead types (cauliflower, broccoli), less serious on the leaf brassicas (cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and least serious on the root brassicas (turnips, swedes) and oil brassicas (rape).