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Archive Home > 2006 > May > 09 > Garlic fungus haunts High Desert farmers

Garlic fungus haunts High Desert farmers

Known as white rot, disease would have devastating impact on crops

By Jeff McDonald / The Bulletin
May 9, 2006

Amid falling prices and rising competition, Central Oregon garlic farmers have an even greater worry: the threat of white rot.

The soil-borne fungus, also known as sclerotium cepivorum, is known throughout the world as the "AIDS of allium crops" for its lack of a cure and ability to....

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