The most famous diseases of garden strawberries: fusarium wilt

Strawberries are a delicious berry. In the forest, it can be found in large numbers. There are also garden varieties of berries. However, this culture is rather capricious, it requires special care. When creating the wrong conditions, various diseases of garden strawberries can even lead to the complete death of all plants.

What is strawberry?

Berry is most susceptible to infection by all sorts of infectious diseases, among which the main place is occupied by fungal lesions of fruits. When planting and further growth of the culture, such infections often occur, as well as microplasma diseases. They have a harmful effect on berries. In the world literature, you can find more than seventy descriptions of various fungal diseases of garden strawberries: nineteen of them affect the leaves of the plant, twenty-four - root cervical roots and thirty-three - fruits. The most destructive effect is caused by gray rot, powdery mildew and spotting, as well as wilting diseases.

Types of wilting diseases

Wilt diseases are the most common. To deal with such a defeat strawberries account for many gardeners in various countries around the world. In the Russian Federation, such infections are even considered economically significant, since they can cause significant damage to agriculture. Especially strong such diseases of garden strawberries are manifested in new plant varieties. Among them, the most common are fusarium, verticillium and late blight wilt.

Fusarium wilt

This type of disease is very dangerous, causing severe damage to the plant. As a result of the defeat of such an infection, it is possible to lose more than half of the entire crop, and this can be revealed both at the stage of flowering of the rosettes and during ripening of the berries.

How does the disease develop?

The development of this disease of strawberry garden begins with its root system. Due to the release of toxic substances, the vessels of the plant die. In this case, the infection can affect not only the berries of strawberries, it will also affect later on other crops, such as potatoes, tomatoes, cereals and many others. Fusarium wilt manifests itself during the entire vegetation period, but in different ways. The initial symptoms of garden strawberry disease are manifestations of necrosis on the leaves, as well as the slow wilting of individual parts of the leaf. In the future, the leaves and petioles begin to burn, then get a dark brown color and die. Rosette bush at this time begin to break up into parts. The plants themselves seem to sit down, cling to the ground. The entire process takes about a month and a half, beginning with the first signs of the disease of garden strawberries and ending with complete death of the plant, its death. To exclude the development of Fusarium wilt, you need to know how to grow strawberries, plant it. It is also necessary to take into account the climatic conditions of growth, the age of planting and much more.