The nursery buys liners only from
growers who are certified clean, but the Greenes have always feared an outbreak
of P. ramorum. This disease would bring a regulatory nightmare as well as
a stigma.You can keep
other pest and disease problems quiet, but not P. ramorum. Everybody
would hear about it. The nursery would be branded for years.
Susan took some leaf
samples, put them in plastic bags and brought them back to the office. She did
an Internet search for P. ramorum symptoms on rhododendron and quickly
had some images for comparison.
The photos on her computer
screen looked eerily similar to the leaves in the plastic bags.
Now what?
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