Phytophthora nicotianae
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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)
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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 about 70% produced in Kentucky. Tennessee produc
Phytophthora nicotianae
…will become. A minimum three-year rotation is recommended. Crop rotation is recommended in combination with resistant varieties as genetic controls. Burley tobacco, burley tobacco hybrids, and dark tobacco are varieties of tobacco that are resistant to black shank. Resistance however is not reliable because a…
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