It happens every summer. Just as your beautiful cherries, peaches, plums or grapes start to ripen, disaster strikes. As the disease called brown rot takes over, fruits become covered with a powdery ...

One of the questions most commonly asked by amateur fruit growers is "Why do my plums and peaches rot and dry up just as they are getting ripe?" The brown rot disease that is responsible for this rot ...

The peach tree outside my office has been showing signs of a disease that runs rampant on stone fruit trees, brown rot. This disease is fungal in nature and can kill all the peaches on the tree in ...

Researchers at Adelaide University are introducing a world-first technique to use bees to help control brown rot in Australia's $150-million cherry industry. Dr Katja Hogendoorn said cherries were ...

Plant pathologist Oscar Villalta and his team from the AgriBio Centre in Melbourne hope to increase stone fruit production by battling the damaging fungal disease, which affects cherry, peach, plum, ...

Brown rot is a fungal disease that affects cherry, peach, prune, nectarine and apricot crops and costs the Victorian stone fruit industry an average of $19 million every year. The disease strikes ...

Brown rot: a ghastly disease that that attacks pears, apples and plums, andcan't be cured. Credit: Photo: GETTY IMAGES It's that time of year again. Now that fruit is ripening and being harvested, ...

If you grow fruit trees such as apples, pear or plums, you may have noticed more brown rot than usual. It seems to have been a bad year for it. This fungal disease starts as a soft brown patch on the ...

A LINCS POTATO grower under irrigation restrictions because of brown rot disease has used an ultraviolet water filtration unit to overcome the problem. As well as being cheaper than chemicals, it has ...

Mycologia, Vol. 105, No. 6 (November / December 2013), pp. 1412-1427 (16 pages) To degrade the polysaccharides, wooddecay fungi secrete a variety of glycoside hydrolases (GHs) and carbohydrate ...

Brown rot pathogens, predominantly within the genus Monilinia, represent a significant threat to stone fruit production worldwide. These fungal agents infect fruits such as peaches, plums and apricots ...