• Predatory mites

  What are predatory mites? Predatory mites are beneficial arthropods used in pest control to manage and reduce populations of harmful pests in various agricultural and horticultural settings. These tin

• Potato aphid

  food source. Even the winged forms can be red. Wingless potato aphids are 1.7 - 3.6 mm long, elongated, with a dark longitudinal stripe running along the dorsal

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• Black leg of seedlings

  General Pythium is considered a ‘weak pathogen’, meaning that it can usually only affect plants that are in a sub-optimal condition or suffer from stress, caused for example by too much water, too hig

• Rhizoctonia solani

  General Thanatephorus cucumeris was long known as Rhizoctonia solani , the vegetative stage. It was long believed to be a sterile fungus, but recently it was discovered that the fungus produces basidi

• Gummy stem blight

  General Mycosphaerella cucumis (Didymella bryoniae) is a fungal plant pathogen that causes gummy stem blight. Damage symptoms Mycosphaerella cucumis in cucumber causes brown lesions on the foot and hi

• Bacterial wilt, brown rot

  General Ralstonia solanacearum is a plant pathogenic bacterium. It is a soil-borne disease and colonises the xylem, causing bacterial wilt and brown rot in a very wide range of potential host plants.

• Crazy roots, hairy roots, crown gall

  General Rhizobium bacteria are soil bacteria that fix nitrogen after becoming established inside root nodules of legumes. Additionally, pathogenic Agrobacterium s pecies have recently been assigned to

• Downy mildew of Cucurbits

  General Pseudoperonospora cubensis is a plant pathogen causing downy mildew on cucurbit crops like cucumber, cantaloupe, pumpkin, watermelon and squash. Damage symptoms Downy mildew pathogens infect m