Plant diseases are caused by living organisms feeding on plants and damaging them in the process. Most can spread from sick to healthy plants by a variety of means.

Knowing optimum conditions for infection and disease spread is the first step in disease prevention and control.

This new guide from the Soil Wealth ICP team provides a brief overview of plant disease, general methods of transmission and the conditions that foster key diseases of aboveground vegetable plant parts.

This resource has been delivered as part of the Hort Innovation-funded Soil Wealth and ICP project – jointly delivered by RM Consulting Group and Applied Horticultural Research.