Re: Strange disease strikes pumpkins
- To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: Strange disease strikes pumpkins
- From: "* <t*@greynet.net>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:52:17 -0400
Good point and it was prity funny too.
Troy
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: From: Claudia Temmermand <roberttemmermand@worldnet.att.net>
: To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
: Subject: Strange disease strikes pumpkins
: Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 4:50 AM
:
: Just thought you might like to read what was in the newspaper this
morning,
: anyone else read this in there newspaper.
:
: Los Angeles Times Sept.10, 1998,
: Halloween could suffer in some parts of New York state this year because
of an
: emerging pumpkin plague, plants experts said Wednesday.
: A strange bacterial disease has erupted in upstate pumpkin patches,
resulting
: in stunted growth, yellowing leaves and the destruction of interior plant
: tissue, say plant pathologists at Cornell University in Ithaca.
Eventually,
: the plants wilt and die.
: The disease is not considered dangerous to humans.
: "This is a brand-new disease; we only began seeing it three weeks ago,"
said
: plant pathologist Thomas Zitter.
: Plant breeder Molly Jahn at Cornell said the economic impact for
individual
: farmers may be substantial.
: "Pumpkins are, in some years, about the most valuable crop on an acre of
: land.....People will pay two or three bucks per fruit,"
: One weapon may be crossbreeding. This is done by scanning existing
pumpkins
: varieties for any that have natural resistance. When disease-resistant
strains
: are found, attemplts are made to crossbreed the trait into other
varieties.
: Although it isn't known how the disease is spread, the fact that it shows
up
: randomly in different fields suggests it may be carried from plant to
plant by
: insects. There seens to be no evidence that the disease lurks in soil or
: seeds, scientists said.
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