Strawberries and Caneberries

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Mucor rot on strawberry. Note the fluffy appearance and wet sticky aspect of the sporangiophores. The paper towel used to be white, but has been completely stained with juice leaking out of the fruit.

Exemplar Mucor Growth on Strawberry

August 8, 2019
By Mark P Bolda
I was holding some strawberry fruit a few weeks ago to check on a pathogen for a local grower (it's very likely anthracose, but more to come on that account), and of course this being late season had a lot of leak rot showing up.
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Just released UC variety 'Warrior'.

New UC Strawberry Varieties: News Release

July 11, 2019
By Mark P Bolda
One of the tasks of the UCCE Farm Advisor is to assist his or her colleagues from the UC with their outreach to growers, at the same time they help growers interpret information coming to them from these sources.
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Typical basket composition for Monterey fruit picked May 20, after an inch of rain and evaluated May 22..

Water Damage on Strawberry

May 22, 2019
By Mark P Bolda
The fairly heavy rains over the past weekend (1.06" from CIMIS station #111 in Watsonville), have given people concern about what sort of damage our strawberry crop has sustained.
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