If you or your agronomist detect aster yellows in a canola crop, you’ll be sure to find it also in an adjacent wheat crop, Ieuan Evans warns.
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For wheat, aster yellows can be a disaster
Practical Research: This destructive disease isn’t just a canola thing
Leafhoppers remain a cause for concern
Aster yellows can quickly wipe out canola and other crops
Aster leafhoppers may be small but they pose a huge risk to canola and other crops on the Prairies. The aster leafhopper (Macrosteles quadrilineatus) typically measures 3.5 to six millimetres in length. It is straw-coloured and is sometimes referred to as the four-lined leafhopper because of the four dark lines on its forehead. While aster […] Read more
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