Strawberries are a delicious berry. In the forest you can find it in a large enough quantity. There are garden varieties of berries. However, this culture is rather capricious, requires special care. When creating the wrong conditions, various diseases of garden strawberries can even lead to the complete death of all plants.
How does strawberry get sick?The berry is most susceptible to the defeat of various infectious diseases, among which the main place is occupied by fungal infections of the fruits. When planting and further growth of the culture, such infections very often arise, 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 - the root necks and roots and thirty-three - the fruits. The most damaging effects are gray rot, powdery mildew and spotting, as well as wilting diseases.
Types of Disease
Withering diseases are the most common. Many gardeners in various countries of the world have to deal with such a defeat of strawberries. In the Russian Federation, such infections are even economically significant, as they can bring significant damage to agriculture. Such diseases of
garden strawberries are especially pronounced in new plant varieties. Among them, the most common are Fusarium, verticillosis and late blight.
Fusarium wilt
This type of disease is very dangerous, causing severe damage to the plant. As a result of the defeat by such an infection, more than half of the entire crop can be lost, and this can be revealed both at the stage of flowering of rosettes and during ripening of berries.
How does the disease develop?
The development of this disease of wild strawberry begins with its root system. Due to the release of toxic substances, the vessels of the plant die. Moreover, the infection can affect not only strawberries, it will also affect other crops, such as potatoes, tomatoes, cereals and many others. Fusarium wilt manifests itself during the entire growing season, but in different ways. The initial symptoms of garden strawberry disease are manifestations of necrosis on the leaves, as well as the slow withering of individual parts of the leaf. Subsequently, the leaves and petioles begin to turn brown, then acquire a dark brown color and die. Rosettes of bushes at this time begin to fall apart. The plants themselves, as it were, sit down, are pressed to the ground. The whole process takes about a month and a half, starting from the manifestation of the first signs of a disease of garden strawberries and ending with the complete extinction 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.