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Will growing tobacco put my garden plants at risk?
Q: I'm interested in planting a tobacco plant in my home garden from seed. I've heard of tobacco mosaic virus and how it can spread from the fingers of someone who has handled tobacco or from insects between infected plants. ...
Pandemic leads to unprecedented burst of questions to Ask an Expert tool
Questions have ballooned to 6,625 in the first half of 2020, more than all of the questions answered in 2019.
Biology and Management of Beet Leafhopper and Purple Top in Potatoes in the Pacific Northwest
Leafhoppers damage potatoes by feeding on the plants, or by transmitting viruses and phytoplasmas, which are small bacterial parasites of plant phloem tissue. Phytoplasmas cause purple top disease, which reduces yield and produces ...
Wheat virus is bigger problem in Pacific Northwest than previously thought
Wheat soil-borne mosaic disease was first detected in the Walla Walla Valley along the Oregon and Washington border in 2008.
Managing Diseases and Insects in Home Orchards
This pest management guide is for the home gardener. It recommends management practices for controlling diseases and insects in home orchards. It doesn't meet the exacting requirements of the commercial fruit grower.
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Bacterial Soft Rot Pathogens of Potato
Jessie Brazil is a Botany and Plant Pathology Masters student at Oregon State University. Jessie does her research at the Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center. The focus is on studying soft rot of potato. This ...
Colorado Potato Beetle in the Columbia Basin
Oregon State University Crop and Soil Science Masters student Pahoua Yang focuses her research project on Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata. Her project is to determine baseline information for several commercial ...
Tackling Potato Virus Y
Tackling Potato Virus Y, a Persistent Problem in Potato Production. Oregon State University Masters student Max Combest explains issues related to Potato Virus Y (PVY). He is doing research of PVY in potato production in the ...
The Impacts of Bacterial Soft Rot Pathogens of Potato
Jessie Brazil is a Botany and Plant Pathology Masters student at Oregon State University. Jessie does her research at the Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center. The focus is on studying soft rot of potato. This ...