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  1. Cork Spot and Bitter Pit of Apples

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-fru-01

    disease usually is not serious. This is an updated version of a fact sheet originally published in 1992. ... sometimes confuse these disorders with damage resulting from insects or pathological diseases, particularly ... used in controlling post-bloom diseases and insects affecting fruit. Do not apply calcium chloride ...

  2. Preventing Heart Disease

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/AEX-982.3-11

    good news is heart disease is preventable. The American Heart Association describes a coronary attack ... coronary artery disease. About 20% of all deaths from heart disease in the United States are directly ... the risk of heart disease is reduced by 50% within just one year. And no matter how long or how much ...

  3. Apple Powdery Mildew

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-fru-21

    usually at the ends of branches. Small, whitish felt-like patches of fungal growth appear and quickly ... cover the entire leaf. Diseased leaves become narrow, crinkled, stunted and brittle. By mid-summer, ... fungal fruiting bodies, but their importance in the disease cycle is probably minimal. The fungus spreads ...

  4. Chicken Breed Selection

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-60

    brown, or other colors such as blue and green. The best egg laying breeds tend to be the smaller bodied ... to protect animals from disease-causing pathogens to help keep them healthy. One of the biggest ... followed closely. Chickens should be purchased free of any disease to avoid introducing a disease into your ...

  5. Gray Leaf Spot of Corn

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-cer-05

    prevalent foliar fungal diseases of corn in the state of Ohio ever since it was first reported in parts of ... into no-till fields and conditions are favorable for infection. Reports of high disease severity are ... humidity favor infect and disease development and spread. Under these conditions, yield losses ranging from ...

  6. Pollinator Quick Guide: What You Can Do to Help Bumble Bees

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/ent-81

    introduced diseases that infect only bumble bees. Because of these threats, some native bumble bee species ... that used to be common, such as the rusty-patched bumble bee, are now facing extinction. In 2017, the ... U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the rusty-patched bumble bee as an endangered species under the ...

  7. Blueberry Leaf Rust

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-fru-43

    Tsuga  (hemlock, spruce), and Rhododendron (azalea, rhododendron). The disease has been reported in Asia, ... disease is sporadic and localized. Leaf rust can cause premature defoliation of affected bushes. Over ... time, and if not properly managed, bushes slowly decline and produce fewer marketable berries. Disease ...

  8. Cedar-Apple Rust

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-tree-10

    Ohio State University Cedar-apple rust is a common plant disease caused by the fungal pathogen ... apple, crabapple, eastern redcedar, and other juniper species. Cedar-apple rust is a widespread disease ... disease on redcedar and juniper, the symptoms can be significant and damaging on apple. This disease has ...

  9. mRNA Vaccines: The Next Generation Tool to Fight Infections

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/vme-34

    cause disease. Several vaccines, such as those for smallpox in humans and rinderpest in cattle, have ... been so successful the disease is all but gone (Greenwood 2014). Traditional Vaccines Traditional ... disease.   Live-attenuated vaccines treat: measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) rotavirus smallpox chickenpox For ...

  10. Rusts of Apple

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-fru-02

    PLPATH-FRU-02 05/06/2016 Michael A. Ellis, Department of Plant Pathology Three rust diseases occur ... green area becomes brown and spongy. The formation of pycnia and aecia on infected fruit is rare. Apples ... crabapple. Larger, gray to brown spots form on leaves of hawthorn. Few aecia form on apple and crabapple. ...

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