Monitoring root disease

Plant root diseases are one of the main factors responsible for poor crop yields.

Roots of affected plants are blackened and brittle and break easily, and are black to the core not just on outer surface.
Roots of affected plants are short with characteristic pinched ends – ‘spear tips’.
Blackening of sub-crown internode in extreme cases
Source URL: https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/mycrop/monitoring-root-disease
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