How to Use botrytis in a Sentence

botrytis

noun

• When my blooms have botrytis, cut them off and get them out of the garden.
  — Rita Perwich, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 May 2017
• But at harvest, at the right time on the right grapes, the right type of botrytis shrivels the grapes to concentrate the juice.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
• Gray mold, or botrytis, is a common problem on many fruits and flowers.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
• Take care not to have the sprinkler directly spraying the plants, as this can create a mildew or botrytis (fungus) problem.
  — oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2021
• Not that disease or pests are a big problem, though botrytis blight can be disappointing when buds get a fuzzy gray mold, turn black and never open.
  — oregonlive.com, 2 July 2019
• No one is perfect: Sometimes the weather conditions will give me botrytis, powdery mildew, rust or black spot.
  — Rita Perwich, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 May 2017
• A common disease of peony is botrytis blight, caused by the fungus, Botrytis paeoniae.
  — Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 12 July 2017
• The Tokaji aszú wines are made by macerating the whole berries of highly concentrated noble rot grapes affected by botrytis in the wine must over a span of a couple of days.
  — Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• As a result, botrytis (gray mold), a common airborne fungus, easily infects and rots crowded clusters of growth.
  — oregonlive, 4 Apr. 2020
• Plus, the combination of high heat and humidity mean that grapes will almost certainly develop botrytis, a type of mold.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• When absorbed by a plant, the fungicide enables it to block disease, such as botrytis in strawberries, which is the most widespread strawberry disease in California.
  — NBC News, 16 Sep. 2019
• Unaffected grapes are first harvested in September to make the base wine and other grapes stay on the vine to become inoculated with botrytis.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2023
• These sugars come only from grapes, concentrated by the action of botrytis, and are therefore completely natural.
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024