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CanadaGAP announces Technical Advisory Committee for 2025

CanadaGAP has announced its 2025 Technical Advisory Committee members. The volunteer committee serves a technical advisory role to the CanAgPlus Board of Directors. The group meets each summer and holds additional meetings as needed. The Committee’s role is to review proposed updates to the CanadaGAP Food Safety manuals, HACCP models and the CanadaGAP Audit Checklist. They also review any other technical matters related to the program.

The Board appointed two new members, Lily Indajati and Nirmal Dhaliwal, and six returning members, Luciana Las Casas Celere, Sara Cook, Adrien Corbiere, Jeff Hall, Stéphanie Levasseur and Quinton Woods, to the Technical Advisory Committee. One other individual, Kylin Han, is a returning member. Beth Pattillo, a director on the CanAgPlus Board, was reappointed as Committee chair.

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LALEXPERT: Sclerotinia cycle and prophylactic methods

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White rot, also known as sclerotinia, is a common agricultural fungal disease caused by various virulent species of Sclerotinia. It initially affects the root system (mycelium) before spreading to the aerial parts through the dissemination of spores.

Sclerotinia is undoubtedly a disease of major economic importance, and very damaging in the event of a heavy attack.

All these attacks come from the primary inoculum stored in the soil: sclerotia. These forms of resistance can survive in the soil for over 10 years, maintaining constant contamination of susceptible host crops, causing symptoms on the crop and replenishing the soil inoculum with new sclerotia.