This past week I confirmed GA’s first case of Boxwood blight in a residential landscape in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. I then visited a second Buckhead site and it too had boxwood blight. Boxwood blight is not a federal or state regulated disease. It is however, a very…
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K. L. Ivors, L. W. Lacey, and M. Ganci Dept. Plant Pathology, North Carolina State Univ. 455 Research Drive, Mills River, NC 28759 This trial evaluated the efficacy of several commercially available fungicides for preventive activity against boxwood blight caused by Cylindrocladium buxicola. Treatments were arranged in a randomized complete…
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By: Steve Frank – Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University; and Kelly Ivors – Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University The National IPM Webinar series was started in 2011 by Dr. Scott Ludwig at Texas A&M…
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Norm Dart1, Virginia State Plant Pathologist Mary Ann Hansen1 and Elizabeth Bush1, Extension Plant Pathologists Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services1, Virginia Tech2 Boxwood blight (also called “box blight” in Europe), caused by the fungal pathogen Cylindrocladium buxicola, was reported for the first time in the U.S. at…
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