It Is Important to distinguish blueberry virus symptoms from other fruit problems. Here are a few tips on how to do just that. IN RECENT years, there have been several outbreaks of berry virus diseases in East Coast states from New York down to Georgia. Monitoring programs at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell University and elsewhere have received numerous suspected berry virus samples hi the past three years. The majority of suspected berry virus disease samples were, fortunately, not virus diseases and in fact represented a variety of nutritional and horticultural abnormalities. At the same time, such samples and producer concerns provide a clear impetus for delivering more Extension information on virus problems in small fruit.
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