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COMMON VEGETABLE DISORDERS
Kristin KrokowskiCommercial Horticulture Educator
UW-Madison ExtensionWaukesha County
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What is a vegetable?
Any plant part grown as food other than a sweet fruit or seed.
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What are vegetable families?
• Cole Crops: cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts
• Root Crops: carrots, beets and onions
• Leafy Greens: lettuce, spinach and Swiss chard
• Cucurbits: cucumber, summer squash, winter squash and melons
• Solanaceous: tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and potatoes
• Legumes: peas and beans
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What is a plant disease?
A plant disease is any harmful alteration in the structure or function of a plant.
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Common types of plant diseases:
• Fungi
• Bacteria
• Viruses
• Viroids
• Nematodes
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Fungi
• More than 10,000 species cause plant disease
• Lack chlorophyll
• Decay plants or live off of living plants
• Reproduce by spores
• Disseminate by wind, water, soil, equipment, insects and root graphs
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Common garden Fungi include:
• Powdery Mildew
• Early Blight (Alternaria)
• Gray Mold (Botrytis)
• Angular Leaf Spot
• Anthracnose
• Verticillium Wilt
• Pythium
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Powdery mildew on squash
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Early blight
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Gray Mold on Peas
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Anthracnose on pepper
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Angular Leaf Spot on Cucumber
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Pythium on Cucumber
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Bacteria
• 100 species cause plant disease
• Help decompose enormous quantities of organic matter
• Single-celled microorganisms
• Reproduce by splitting
• Cannot make their own food
• Spread by splashing water and insects
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Bacterial Speck on Tomato
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Bacterial Blight on Beans
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Viruses
• 500 species cause plant disease
• Extremely tiny
• Cannot survive without host
• Transmitted by insects
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Cucumber Mosaic Virus on Squash
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Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
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Viroids• Less complex than viruses
• Transmitted by vegetative propagation
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Aster Yellowson Carrot
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Stem, Crown and Root Rot
•Pythium•Phytopthora•Fusarium•Rhizoctonia•Verticillium
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Pythuim
infects young tissue
commonly attacks below
the soil surface
favored by wet, poorly
drained conditions
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Vegetables affected by Pythium
• Vegetable seedlings
• Beans
• Beets
• Carrots
• Cucumbers
• Eggplant
• Leafy greens
• Melons
• Peas
• Peppers
• Potatoes
• Pumpkin and Squash
• Tomato
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Phytopthoradiscolored leaveswiltingpremature leaf dropstuntingstem die backplant death
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Vegetables affected by Phytopthora
• Eggplant
• Pumpkin
• Squash
• Tomato
• Potato
• Pepper
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Fusarium
• Necrotic lesions at soil line
• Plants wilt and die
• Decay is soft and mushy
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Vegetables affected by Fusarium
• Asparagus
• Beans
• Cucumber
• Cole Crops
• Melons
• Onions
• Peas
• Potatoes
• Tomato
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Rhizoctonia
moist brown lesions
decay of crown areas
and sometime roots
white cottony fungal
growth
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Vegetables affected by Rhizoctonia• Beans
• Beets
• Carrots
• Cole Crops
• Peas
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Verticillium infected leaves turn yellow
browning of older leaves
darkening of tissues in the stems
fungal resting spores persist in the soil more than 4 years
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Vegetables affected by Verticillium
• Eggplant
• Peppers
• Potatoes
• Tomatoes
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Stem, Crown and Root Rot: Prevention
• Use pasteurized rowing media
• Crop rotation
• Good sanitation
• Good drainage
• Don’t overwater
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Vegetable Leaf Diseases
• Most fungal or bacterial
• Identification important
• Treatment depends on time of infection
• May spread to stems and fruit
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Angular Leaf Spot• Small irregularly shaped spots
• Water soaked to gray spots
• Some hosts have a yellow halo
• Spots turn gray to tan and fall out
• Lesions limited by leaf veins
• Spreads to fruit
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Angular Leaf Spot Hosts:
• Beans
• Cucumber
• Pumpkin
• Squash
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Anthracnose• Small circular water soaked spots on
leaves on lettuce and spinach
• Melons leaves, stems and fruit affected
• Fruit primarily affected in tomatoes and peppers
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Anthracnose Hosts:• Beans
• Cucumber
• Eggplant
• Melons
• Pumpkin
• Squash
• Tomato
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Alternaria leaf blight
• Many different kinds of alternaria
• Cause foliar, pod, seed and broccoli head diseases in cole crops
• Begin as specks and enlarge
• Target like appearance
• Causes early blight, black mold and stem canker on tomatoes
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Alternaria Hosts:• Carrots• Beans• Broccoli• Brussels Sprouts• Cabbage
• Cauliflower• Cucumber• Eggplant• Melons• Onion (purple blotch)
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Cercospora Leaf Spot
• Small flecks with gray to tan centers
• Yellow halo
• Petiole lesions elliptical and brown with a pale center
• Does not affect roots
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Cercospora Hosts:
• Beets
• Carrots
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Downey Mildew
• Doesn’t overwinter in Wisconsin
• Starts as small pale green to angular to rectangular spots limited by leaf veins
• Early symptoms mosaic or mottled
• Light gray to purple sporulation on underside of leaf when conditions are favorable.
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Downey Mildew Hosts:
• Broccoli
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbage
• Cauliflower
• Cucumber
• Leafy greens
• Melons
• Pumpkin
• Squash
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Powdery Mildew• White powdery
growth on leaf surfaces
• Underlying tissue turns chlorotic or necrotic
• Rarely affects fruit
• Can reduce yield
• Can sunburn fruit
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Powdery Mildew Hosts:• Cucumber
• Melons
• Peas
• Pumpkin
• Squash
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Bacterial Wilt
• Rapid wilt and collapse of vines
• Transmitted by cucumber beetle
• Wilting leaves take on a dark green color
• Late leaves chlorotic and then necrotic
• Use the ooze test
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Bacterial Wilt Hosts:• Cucumber
• Melons
• Pumpkin
• Squash
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Mosaic Virus
• Many viruses
• Contorted/spindle leaves
• Leaf discoloration
• Misshapen fruit
• Changes in leaf texture
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Mosaic Virus Hosts:
• Beans
• Cucumber
• Lettuce
• Melon
• Peas
• Pumpkin
• Squash
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Avoiding leaf and fruit diseases• Appropriate spacing
• Good plant nutrition
• Plant rotation
• Resistant varieties
• Rouging
• Sanitation
• Appropriate light
• Water early or at the base of plants
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Other disorders
• Nutrient deficiency
• Cold injury
• Drought stress
• Hail damage
• Herbicide injury
• Flooding
• Pollination
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