Up to 48% of sunflower plants in Zaporizhzhya, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Poltava, Chernigov, Kiev, Cherkassk, Kirovograd, Volyn, Transcarpathian and Ternopil regions are affected by fomoz.

Information about this, based on phytosanitary monitoring, was reported by the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.

Sunflower phomosis is widespread. The causative agent of the disease is the marsupial mushroom Leptosphaeria lindquistii Frezzi (anamorph: Phoma oleraceae f. Helianthi tuberosi Sacc.). The development of the disease is facilitated by non-compliance with crop rotation and periodic rains.

Sunflower can infect more than 20 types of pathogens of fungal diseases, the main among which are phomosis (Phoma macdonaldii Sacc.), Phomopsis (Diaporthe helianthi M. Munt. Et al.), Rust (Puccinia helianthi Schw.), Downy mildew (Plasmopara halstedii Novot) , gray rot (Botrytis cinerea Pers.) and white rot (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary).

“Peronosporosis affects 8-25% of sunflower, 17% of crops are affected by rust and septoria, and in Kirovograd region. - up to 50%. Fomopsis is sick in 25% of plants in the Volyn region and up to 65% in the Rivne region,” the press service of the State Service for Food Safety said.

Everywhere: on baskets, stems, roots of 3-20% of plants in Kirovograd, Odessa, Zaporozhye, Lugansk, Donetsk, Chernigov regions, white and gray rot are common. In the Kirovograd region, 4% of plants are parasitized by the sunflower spinning top, and in the steppe and forest-steppe regions, the larvae of the sunflower spiker, moth caterpillars, cotton moth, and meadow moth harm.

Earlier we wrote about the start of a new oilseed season

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