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Late Blight Lookalikes on Leaves and Stems (continued)

Air pollutants Air pollutants cause dark lesionson leaves that resemble lateblight, but no yellowish halosurrounds the lesions. No whitefungal growth develops in wetweather as in late blight lesions Acid rain lesion. Tipburn The tips of leaflets turn…

Late Blight Lookalikes on Leaves and Stems (continued)Potatoes.News
The tips of leaflets turn brown

Air pollutants

pollutants
Air pollutants cause dark lesions
on leaves that resemble late
blight, but no yellowish halo
surrounds the lesions. No white
fungal growth develops in wet
weather as in late blight lesions
pollutants1
Acid rain lesion.

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Tipburn

Heat stress

Heat stress
Brown areas on leaflets develop when hot weather
prevails for several days.

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