Russia has protected from dangerous maize from the USA
Corn for popcorn from the United States were infected with a dangerous disease of plants. The party is over 40 tons unfit for food was intended for industrial processing.
Employees Rosselkhoznadzor prevented the importation into the Russian party of American grains corn for popcorn weight of 41.5 tons. In departmental Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region explained that this decision was taken in connection with the discovery in the delivery of dangerous plant diseases.
"When you examine a lot of corn for popcorn weight of 41.5 tons, arrived from the United States in sea port of Saint-Petersburg, inspectors of territorial Administration of the Rosselkhoznadzor detected external indicators of lesion production disease of plants," - says the official website of the Department. The Rosselkhoznadzor said that to identify the sample grains were oriented in the subordinate office laboratory, where experts have proven infection products dangerous quarantine disease - diplodia tip blight of maize.
"According to the results of laboratory studies, it was decided about the direction of the cargo for industrial processing", - is told in the news. Note that diplodia tip blight (dry rot) corn is a dangerous disease caused by a microscopic fungus.
Has a wide distribution in the U.S. and there is one of the most unsafe diseases of corn. Pathogen diplodia tip blight affects all parts of the plant, but the greatest damage causes the ears, which at the time of harvesting receive a grayish-brown color and shrivel. When planting diseased grains, some of them produce shoots, but the roots and lower stems of such plants are affected. According to reliable information the American researchers, the loss of the corn crop in areas with rich wetting can reach up to 80%.
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