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Tobacco plant with clear evidence of blue mold sporulation taken from a
seedbed in the Leola-Leacock area was examinded by John O. Yocum, left,
A agronomist and researcher at the Penn State Southeast Field Research Lab,
w Landisville, and Arnold Lueck, county extension agent.
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Blue mold sporulation
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conditions have impeded its
development.
Yocum just received word
that instances of blue mold
spomlation was detected
this week on plants taken
from seedbeds into fields in
neighboring Maryland
There have been no in
dications of healthy plants
contracting it.
In Lancaster County, early
symptoms of blue mold were
found in seedbeds in the
Christiana and Bird-m-Hand
areas But the Leola-
Leacock finding was the first
clear visibile evidence of the
sporulation.
From all indications,
county growers largely did a
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Sheep producers will be
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In the cattle category.
good job of spraying in
seedbeds, according to
Lueck. Also, approximately
4,000 acres of tobacco ground
- about one-third of total
county acreage - has been
treated with Ridomil, a
systemic fungicide which is
applied to the soil before
transplanting. Introduced
just this year, all available
supplies of the fungicide
were used.
While growers will be
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fields, researchers such as
Yocum will be concentrating
attention on their research
plots.
“There are some in
dications that there may be a
new strain of blue mold that
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grows and develops at
higher temperatures,”
Yocum said.
“Here at the Research
Lab, we’ll be planting eight
different varieties of tobacco
in research plots. Each of
the vaneties is susceptible to
a different strain of blue
mold. Similar plantings will
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The existing strain of blue
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peratures in the 60’s
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