Tag: seedling disease

• Damping-Off on Direct-Seeded and Transplanted Vegetable Crops

  

  From Clemson Plant Pathologist Tony Keinath “Damping-off” refers to root and stem rot on young seedlings of direct-seeded crops. “Stem and root rot” is used to describe the same disease on transplanted crops. I will use the term “seedling disease” when information below applies to both types of crops. In South Carolina, the water mold…

  Justin Ballew

  February 20, 2024

  Disease, Weekly Field Updates

  damping off, Disease, disease management, pythium, seedling disease, transplants