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Soft rot and blackleg in potatoes

May 20, 2026

Soft rot and blackleg are often treated as ‘bad luck diseases’: the kind that appear late, ruin a portion of the crop, and then vanish until the next season. In…

Soft rot blackleg

May 14, 2025

Soft rot, blackleg and stem rot is a bacterial disease complex caused by a group of closely related pathogens, namely the pectinolytic enterobacteria. The disease was recently renamed from Erwinia…