Dry Bean Bacterial Wilt Pathogen Can Be Different Colors
By Robert Harveson, University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension Plant Pathologist Bacterial wilt of dry beans, caused by Curtobacterium flaccufaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Cff), has historically posed sporadic but often serious production problems in dry beans throughout the irrigated High Plains since its first report from South Dakota in 1922. In the early 1980s, the disease mysteriously […]