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Reducing costly fruit rot

Xiao (Photo by Brian Charles Clark) The old saying about one bad apple spoiling the whole bunch is based on a real concern. For Washington’s tree fruit industry, postharvest rot of fruit in storage costs the industry millions of dollars of losses annually.   Chang-Lin Xiao, an associate professor of plant pathology and extension specialist […]