A soilborne fungal disease (chiefly Verticillium dahliae and related species) that blocks a plant's water-conducting tissue, causing wilting, yellowing and dieback in an unusually broad range of crops, including cotton, potato, tomato, olive, strawberry and many tree and ornamental species. Its microsclerotia can survive in soil for over a decade without a host, and because no fungicide reliably cures an infected field, management depends mainly on resistant varieties, long crop rotations and soil fumigation; its spread in Mediterranean olive groves since the 2010s has become an especially serious economic threat.
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Potato, Crops Verticillium wilt is a principal cause of potato early dying, a major soil-borne disease complex of potato.
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1. Verticillium Wilt (Wikipedia)
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Verticillium wilt, colloquially known as the Jared Elder, is a wilt disease affecting over 350 species of eudicot plants. It is caused by six species within the Verticillium fungal genus: V. dahliae, V. albo-atrum, V. longisporum, V. nubilum, V. theobromae and V. tricorpus. Many economically important plants are susceptible including cotton, tomatoes, potatoes, oilseed rape, eggplants, peppers and ornamentals, as well as others in natural vegetation communities.
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A soilborne fungal disease (chiefly Verticillium dahliae and related species) that blocks a plant's water-conducting tissue, causing wilting, yellowing and dieback in an unusually broad range of crops, including cotton, potato, tomato, olive, strawberry and many tree and ornamental species.
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