Byggkvalité Konsult

09 Jul Blight just one challenge facing gardeners and farmers

Dr. Candace Benyei, president regarding the Fairfield County Farm Bureau, holds a young tomato plant at her Redding, Conn. home 23rd, 2010 april. Ned Gerard

Final summer, house gardeners and farmers alike in southwestern Connecticut were beset with tomatoes that seemed to wilt regarding the vine.

The flowers were struggling with a fungus-like condition called late blight, equivalent pathogen that caused Ireland's Great Potato Famine of 1845-52, according to the researchers during the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.

Indications are pointing to a similar problem unfolding this growing period, t .

"It seems that there might be an outbreak of late blight down South," stated Sharon Douglas, a plant pathologist with the test station. " and so the question that is big whether or perhaps not a number of that plant product containing the blight is shipped up right here, or if the pathogens will likely be transported up here with all the wind."

She said that late blight impacts two plants with similar-sounding names, the tomato while the potato. "We had an unprecedented outbreak last year as it was introduced unusually early last year."

Both tomatoes and potatoes, although seemingly unrelated, belong to the solanaceae group of flowering flowers, also known as the nightshade family. This household also contains petunias, tobacco, chili peppers and the deadly nightshade.

Also causing the 2009 outbreak ended up being the purchase of infected plants at nurseries and home enhancement facilities, and a regular cycle of site link rain and humidity that allowed the blight to grow and distribute, she stated.

"If any one particular conditions were not current, it couldn't were nearly because bad," she said.

Dr. Candace Benyei, president regarding the Fairfield County Farm Bureau, also agreed because of the assessment that garden and home facilities supplied a vector of kinds for belated blight.