Emmalea Ernest, Extension Fruit & Vegetable Specialist; emmalea@udel.edu Adapted from an article by Gordon Johnson Rain during tomato fruit ripening can result in increased fruit cracking in field tomatoes causing extensive losses of marketable fruit. Cracking can become more problematic… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu and Karen Rane, Plant Diagnostician, University of Maryland rane@umd.edu Corky root is caused by the fungus Pyrenochaeta lycopersici. Tomato plants affected with corky root may appear stunted and generally lack vigor. Later the… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu The disease tomato pith necrosis was one that we used to only sporadically find in our tomato fields, but in the last 6-8 years it has become a much more consistent… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland, jbrust@umd.edu Each year I put this information out near the end of a growing season in the hopes that growers will take a look in their fields for root knot nematode problems… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland, jbrust@umd.edu; Ben Beale, St. Mary’s Co. Extension Agent, bbeale@umd.edu; Karen Rane, Plant Diagnostician, University of Maryland rane@umd.edu Corky root is caused by the fungus Pyrenochaet lycopersici. Tomato plants affected with corky… Continue Reading
