Late Blight

Marrone Bio Innovations has the determination to succeed as leaders who make us of natural solutions that will go on to become effective, sustainable and eco-friendly methods to control and combat the affects of pests as well as other crop and non-crop related diseases, which include late blight and anthracnose. late blight is a plant disease that attacks potatoes and tomatoes, and in fact, it was late blight that caused the Irish potato famine in 1850 and forced millions of Irish people to emigrate, and those who remained succumbed to starvation, and entire potato crops were destroyed by late blight . The late blight caused the potatoes to rot, and even stored potatoes were not spared - the late blight fungal infections devastated all potato stores. The fungal spores produced by late blight can travel through the air and in fact, late blight has been known to affect tomato crops, again, rendering them inedible. The spores of the infection can even washed into the soil, which will later infect the next seasons of potato tubers that will rot before they are harvested.

Like most infections, late blight can be controlled and that is to examine all seeds and tubers before they are planted and to ensure that seeds and tubers that are blemish-free are planted. If blemishes are detected on the tubers or seeds, is it critical that the infected tubers are destroyed and the best way to ensure that late blight is avoided is to plant potatoes that are immune or resistant to the infection, such as the Elba variety and other varieties which have a moderate resistance, such as Allegany and Kennebec. However, in order to recognize late blight , it is important to know the symptoms of infection, which include lesions that may occur on either the stems or leaves of the potato or tomato plant. The late blight lesions, have an unmistakable brownish or purplish color. Marrone Bio Innovations has created sustainable, non-harmful solutions to fight late blight and it is through the out-of-the-box thinking of Marrone Bio Innovations that late blight can be treated and this is done without the use of damaging pesticides, which have proven to have a negative impact on the surrounding eco-systems and habitats.

Marrone Bio Innovations specializes in the study of fungal and bacterial diseases, such as late blight , bacterial blight and anthracnose, and with continually research and development, they have created organic herbicides for crops and trees that have been shown to vastly increase the survival chances of potato and tomato plants that have been affected by late blight . Marrone Bio Innovations has developed the Regalia® SC, which is able to control fungal and bacterial diseases. GreenMatch®EX, which is an organic herbicide for crops and non-crops and these products can be purchased directly via the Marrone Bio Innovations website. Find out more about how Marrone Bio Innovation is paving the way for the future treatment of diseases with eco-friendly and natural alternatives. Please feel free to view the MBI website at http://marronebioinnovations.com for additional insight into late blight .