Fusarium wilt of spinach

Fusarium wilt of spinach

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During the last few years Fusarium wilt of spinach, a disease new to Monterey County and California, has been observed.This disease was first suspected as the cause of severe losses in Mounting Plate a 50-acre field adjoining the Salinas River, 4 miles south of Salinas, in 1967.In 1969 it was positively identified on a ranch in the Moss Landing area, where it caused almost complete loss of a summer spinach crop in a 10-acre field.The organism which incites the disease RELORA is Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.

spinaciae.