How to Use botrytis in a Sentence
botrytis
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When my blooms have botrytis, cut them off and get them out of the garden.
—Rita Perwich, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 May 2017
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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
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Gray mold, or botrytis, is a common problem on many fruits and flowers.
—The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
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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
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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
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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
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A common disease of peony is botrytis blight, caused by the fungus, Botrytis paeoniae.
—Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 12 July 2017
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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
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As a result, botrytis (gray mold), a common airborne fungus, easily infects and rots crowded clusters of growth.
—oregonlive, 4 Apr. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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