Thermotherapy rids azaleas of deadly fungal disease
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
Azalea web blight, caused by a species of the plant pathogen Rhizoctonia, occurs each year on some containerized azalea cultivars during nursery production, particularly in the southern and eastern United States. Azalea shoots can harbor the pathogen, spreading the devastating, costly disease through propagation.