. Western agriculture. indefinite, orraised and blistered, with or withoutooze of reddish brown drops issuing fromthe lenticels. When the canker is nolonger active, it has a definite is then separated from the healthytissue by a crack. These cankers formabout the base of a blighted shoot orspur. They are the means by whichthe disease is carried over winter. Blos-som blight is evidenced by sudden wilt-ing and blackening of the young fruit shortly after the petalsfall. Then follows wilting and blackening of the youngleaves of the spur. This formof blight is disseminated byinsects or ot
. Western agriculture. indefinite, orraised and blistered, with or withoutooze of reddish brown drops issuing fromthe lenticels. When the canker is nolonger active, it has a definite is then separated from the healthytissue by a crack. These cankers formabout the base of a blighted shoot orspur. They are the means by whichthe disease is carried over winter. Blos-som blight is evidenced by sudden wilt-ing and blackening of the young fruit shortly after the petalsfall. Then follows wilting and blackening of the youngleaves of the spur. This formof blight is disseminated byinsects or other small animalswhich visit the ooze contain-ing the blight organism whichis found on the edge of theactive cankers and carried tothe blossom. Twig blightshows as a sudden wilting andblackening of the young twigfrom the tip downward. Fruitblight shows as a water-soakedarea on the green fruit whichblackens. From the lenticelsof the fruit milky drops con-taining the bacteria ooze out. Figure 107—Twig blight on WESTERN AGRICULTURE
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