Q. Every year my peaches are ruined by brown rot disease. I spray Captan when I first begin to see signs of the problem but it doesn’t seem to help. Should I just give up on peaches? A. Don’t give up.

Q: Every year the fruit on my peach tree turns brown and rots. What do I need to do to produce harvestable peaches? Answer: Your description sounds like brown rot, a disease caused by the fungus ...

The peach tree outside my office has been showing signs of a disease that runs rampant on stone fruit trees, brown rot. This disease is fungal in nature and can kill all the peaches on the tree in ...

Brown rot pathogens, predominantly within the genus Monilinia, represent a significant threat to stone fruit production worldwide. These fungal agents infect fruits such as peaches, plums and apricots ...

Q. My peaches are rotting after I pick them. Do you know what is causing this? — A reader in Forestburgh A. Brown rot is a major disease of stone fruit (peaches, apricots, cherries, nectarines, and ...

Q.: A few years back, I planted two Red haven peach trees. They have done well up till this year. This spring one tree had a jelly-like substance coming out of the bark of the tree. It blossomed and ...

Plant pathologist Oscar Villalta and his team from the AgriBio Centre in Melbourne hope to increase stone fruit production by battling the damaging fungal disease, which affects cherry, peach, plum, ...