Phytophthora nicotianae or black shank is an oomycete belonging to the order Peronosporales and family Peronosporaceae.
Black shank affecting a field of tobacco
Black shank infection on American boxwood
Phytophthora nicotianae disease cycle
Black shank disease effects
Burley tobacco is a light air-cured tobacco used primarily for cigarette production. In the United States it is produced in an eight-state belt with approximately 70% produced in Kentucky. Tennessee produces approximately 20%, with smaller amounts produced in Indiana, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Burley tobacco is produced in many other countries, with major production in Brazil, Malawi and Argentina.
White burley tobacco monument dedicated on 7 August 1964 and located at the Ohio Tobacco Museum in Ripley
Field of burley tobacco, drying and curing barn in the background, farm of Russell Spears, Lexington, Kentucky, 1940
Harvesting burley tobacco, 1940
Fields at the George Barkley Farm near Augusta, Kentucky, where Webb and Fore obtained the first white burley seed