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Popular packing shed poster showing common carrot defects including:
- Corky Crown Rot – Streptomyces
- Carrot Scab – Streptomyces
- Ring Rot – Phytophthora
- Cavity Spot – Pythium sulcatum
- Smooth Crown rot – Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, or Sclerotinia
- Sclerotinia Rot – Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
- Sour Rot – Geotrichum
- Tip Rot – poor drainage
- Black Ring Rot – bacterial or fungal rot
- Violet Ring Rot – Rhizoctonia crocorum
- Black Scurf – Rhizoctonia solani
- Forking – Pythium, nematodes, compaction
- Non-disease defects including Shadow, Cracks, Bolters, Misshappen, Insect damaged, Splits, Broken, Greening and Scaly skin.
Authors
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Hoong Pung
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Pam Cox
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Horticultural Research and Development Corporation provided funding for this work as a part of project VG96015 – “An investigation of carrot diseases in north-west Tasmania and their control.”
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