Patchy, thinning stands like this can signal aphanomyces root rot — a risk that climbs in the wet conditions now hitting Manitoba's pea regions. Photo: Jennifer Blair

Flooded pea fields face an old enemy: aphanomyces root rot

University of Saskatchewan breeders have six promising lines entering registration trials, part of a years-long hunt for partial resistance to a disease no pea variety can fully shake

By Janelle Rudolph

Some of Manitoba’s top pea-growing acres are in the same regions that went underwater earlier this month.

Outside of straight flood damage, extra moisture could also increase crop susceptibility to disease.

 

Read article in the Manitoba Cooperator