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by Anne Manning
Many a Coloradan looks forward to that first, juicy bite of a Palisade peach every summer. Demand for the famous Western Slope fruit never runs dry, but the state’s $40 million peach industry is under increasing threat from an insidious pathogen that destroys peach and other fruit-bearing trees.
Researchers in Colorado State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences aim to turn the tide against the tree-killing fungal pathogen Cytospora, which for decades has wreaked havoc among peach orchards across the Western Slope, cutting the lifespans of trees in half and costing farmers millions of dollars each year.
Cytospora is killing peach trees across the state an epidemic that is halving the lifespan of trees and costing industry farmers millions of dollars annually.
Thankfully, plant and fungal biologist Jane Stewart, an assistant professor in CSU s Department of Agricultural Biology, is studying the pathogen to determine how to defeat it.
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Scientists can identify
Cytospora through canker wounds, which appear on a tree s bark when the fungus is present. Stewart and her team will analyze these wounds to see how the pathogen moves through orchards and how farming practices influence its growth. We are looking at combatting this disease from a molecular standpoint, as well as from cultural practices of growers, said Stewart in the release.