Sweet basil is among the most popular and economically important culinary herbs, but by 2010, US production began to feel the impact of a newly emerging destructive disease: basil downy mildew. At that time, no sweet basil varieties were resistant to basil downy mildew and growers began relying heavily on fungicide application to avoid devastating […]
Commercial Agriculture
James Simon – breakthrough in the war against basil downy mildew
James Simon – Department of Plant Biology; Rutgers Cooperative Extension
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A plant breeding breakthrough: Downy mildew resistant sweet basil
Jim Simon, Department of Plant Biology
Andy Wyenandt, Department of Plant Biology
A Plant Breeding Breakthrough: Downy Mildew Resistant Sweet Basil
Sweet basil used to be considered a relatively easy fresh market culinary herb crop to grow. Growers saw it as a popular and profitable enterprise. When sweet basil was later hit by Fusarium wilt, conventional growers were able to turn to fumigation, while organic growers were able to turn to emerging resistant varieties.
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