A disease epidemic project aims to communicate the incoming threat of the bacterial disease syndrome basses richesses (SBR) ...

A disease epidemic project aims to communicate the incoming threat of the bacterial disease Syndrome Basses Richesses (SBR) and its impact on sugar beet. Although not currently present in the UK ...

Takatomo Kusano, the company’s president, adds that the cultivation of sugar beets supports other key crops in Hokkaido, because they help suppress the spread of plant diseases by supporting ...

But some sugar beet farmers say the pesticides are needed to protect against the disease known as virus yellows. The threat level posed by the virus had to be independently scientifically-verified ...

That threshold will be a 65% infection across the national sugar beet crop. The NFU said the Virus Yellows disease had already caused sugar beet crop losses of up to 80% in recent years and ...