http://www.extento.hawaii.edu/kbase/crop/Type/fus_prim.htm
its intersting that there are so many plants and twenty four types of this fungus.
i did a yahoo search several different ways to come up with this page and thought it was intersting.
i found this an intersting read
Interesting reading. With 24 different kinds of fusarium, I wouldn't be surprised if SB already existed here in the US. Maybe it just took awhile to find a brugnuts garden.
What they call stem rot on tomatoes looks a lot like SB
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Kris..... I have been trying to spread the word.... SB is the german word for stalk wilt.... stem rot, it's all the same. SB is not an exotic disease. it's been in the US forever and ever and ever... same as tomatoes get, more or less... , except tomatoes and such are bred for resistance to fungi and nematodes.
it's possible some didn't know what it was, just that their plants died, or if they did, they didn't want others to know they had it.
Stem (Stengel) Blight (Brand)
i wonder if the people who have it if they grew tomatoes in the gardens. they might of just passed it along.
who knows its here and been here forever since its in the soil. i just wish peoplle would quit fighting over it. life is way too short for this.
LOL I thought Brand was "fire/burn" in German. Im learning new stuff every day! I love it!
edited because of spelling stuff.
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Arlene, I know you have been saying that, and I have been listening. I didn't say anything because I really don't know enough about fungus.
With that many strains out there though, and brugs being related to tomatoes, it would be logical to assume that at least a few strains would be able to attack brugs.
Maybe if we get that symptom in the garden we could just let it take it's course, Keep the brugs that survive and start to work on resistant varieties.
As a matter of fact, I gave up on trying to fight daylily rust. I have some that turn in to rust buckets every fall, then there can be another daylily next to it showing no syptoms at all. I should get rid of the rusty ones and keep the ones that are resistant.
Kris, that is an excellent idea, both of them.