Tag: brown rot

• Question of the Week – Brown Rot

  

  What’s going on with this peach? This peach is completely covered with brown rot (Monilinia fructicola). Brown rot is one of the most significant diseases of peaches, plums, and nectarines. As the fruit is consumed by the fungi, it shrivels up into what’s known as a “mummy”. Mummified fruit falls to the ground and remains…

  Justin Ballew

  July 9, 2026

  Question of the Week

  brown rot, Disease, fungi, mummy, nectarine, peach, Question of the Week

• Weekly Field Update – 7/11/22

  

  Clemson Plant Pathologist Tony Keinath has a new article featured in the American Vegetable Grower. Click here to read about “Why Disease Control is More Challenging on Leafy Greens.” Don’t forget about the Watermelon Field Day coming up this Thursday (7/14) at the Edisto Research Center (64 Research Rd.) in Blackville from 8am-1pm. Registration opens…

  Justin Ballew

  July 11, 2022

  Weekly Field Updates

  brown rot, clemson extension, Disease, fall crops, harvest, Peaches, rain, south carolina, sun scald, Tomatoes, Weekly Field Updates