Increasing anthracnose resistance to fungicides documented in the northeastern U.S.

Anthracnose (caused by the fungus Colletotrichum cereale) is one of those diseases that eats fungicides for lunch (and breakfast and dinner), due to the fungus' ability to rapidly develop resistance to many different kinds of disease control products. But which fungicides are most likely to become ineffective due to resistance? And how rapidly does resistance develop for different fungicides?

Based on the work of Dr. Nathaniel Mitkowski and his team at the University of Rhode Island, we can now answer…