Gray mold can ruin the taste and appearance of fresh-market grapes, according to Smilanick. For organic growers, Botrytis is especially troublesome because these producers can't use the typical ...

That dusty, white surface on your grapes might make you nervous. Is it dirt? Pesticides? The good news is that this coating is completely natural. It's called "bloom," and it actually helps protect ...

Have you ever bought strawberries or other fruits and vegetables, forgot to put them in the refrigerator and later noticed they had gray mold on some of them? That’s Botrytis cinerea, a fungal ...

This release is available in Spanish. Small but mighty, a beneficial microbe called Muscodor albus may help protect fresh grapes from troublesome gray mold. Experiments conducted over the past several ...