If you grow strawberry or are somehow related to the strawberry industry, you must have heard about a new emerging disease, Pestalotia leaf spot and fruit rot, caused by the fungus Neopestalotiopsis sp. The taxonomy of this pathogen is confusing because it has gone through multiple reclassifications over the years, and it requires genetic (DNA) characterization. Researchers … Continue reading Watch for Neopestalotiopsis disease in strawberry