Month: July 2022

First Symptoms of Apple Bitter Rot in 2022 Visible in Winchester, VA

First Symptoms of Apple Bitter Rot in 2022 Visible in Winchester, VA

First signs of bitter rot disease on fruit of apple cultivar ‘Golden Delicious’ have been found on 12 July in Winchester at AREC’s experimental Block 30 (Fig.1). Rot started from the fruit side (Fig. 1). We found that bitter rot lesions were almost always on