Tomato, Potato Blight Hits Eastern US; Experts Say It's Spurred By Rain, Big-box Distribution (AP) Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States. Late blight _ the same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s _ occurs sporadically in the Northeast, but this year's outbreak is more severe for two reasons: infected plants have been widely distributed by big-box retail stores and rainy weather has hastened the spores' airborne spread. The disease, which is not harmful to humans, is extremely contagious and experts say it most likely spread on garden center shelves to plants not involved in the initial infection. It also can spread once plants reach their final... [read full story]
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CONCORD, NH – Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
Tomato plants are being pulled from store shelves so that an airborne disease cannot sicken other plants. The late blight disease killing tomato plants is been dubbed the "bubonic plague" of the tomato world. Cornell University...
Story Created: Jul 3, 2009 at 5:13 PM EDT Story Updated: Jul 3, 2009 at 5:18 PM EDT ORISKANY, N.Y. (WKTV) - There's a disease that's hitting tomato plants across the northeast and it may have found its way to your own garden...
Stores in several states are removing tomato plants from their shelves as an infectious and destructive plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.Late blight occurs...
Plant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard By HOLLY RAMER – 13 hours ago CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its...
Published: Friday, July 3, 2009 10:58 a.m. MDT CONCORD, N.H. — Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance...
CONCORD, N.H. -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
Tomato, Potato Blight Hits Eastern US; Experts Say it's Spurred by Rain, Big-Box Distribution By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press Writer CONCORD, N.H. July 3, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press Post a Comment Tomato plants have been...
HOLLY RAMER : ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United...
CONCORD, N.H. -- Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.
