New chemistry helps combat late blight in pistachios
Pistachios have one of the highest acreages for nuts produced in the United States, and production is on the rise. In the past few decades, the pistachio sector in California has seen steady expansion, increasing dramatically from 1,700 bearing acres in 1977 to 178,000 in 2012, as recorded by surveys from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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