11. Bacterial crown rot of papaya in the Philippines. 12. Crown rot is an infrequently occurring disease problem.13. Moist mulches, if allowed to come into contact with plant stems, could cause stem or crown rot . 14. It can also infect strawberry plants and cause crown rot , root rot, and leather rot of the fruit. 15. Aside from the disease-induced crop loss, crown rot is also significant due to the toxicity of infected wheat. 16. Agronomic practices can be used to reduce the severity of Fusarium crown rot on wheat, but they cannot eliminate the disease. 17. If planted very early in the spring, they will bloom in late summer, assuming they don't succumb to crown rot first. 18. Therefore, the combination of yield loss and diseased crop toxicity makes crown rot an extremely important disease for global food supply. 19. High humidity coupled with warm temperatures ( as in the South ) will cause them to mildew or die of crown rot . 20. In the past three decades, crown rot has become the disease of greatest relative importance in the northern grain producing regions of Australia.
