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US clean energy jobs grew by 3.9% in 2022

The US Department of Energy 's (DOE) 2023 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) - a comprehensive study designed to track and understand employment trends across the energy sector - shows clean energy jobs increased in every state in 2022.

Clean energy jobs grew by 3.9%, adding 114,000 jobs nationally, increasing to over 40% of total energy jobs.

Clean energy technologies, such as solar and wind, accounted for more than 84% of net new electric power generation jobs, adding over 21,000 jobs (+3.6% growth), and jobs related to zero emissions vehicles saw nearly 21% growth, adding over 38,000 jobs.

US companies working with clean energy fuels, which it defined as corn ethanol, woody biomass/cellulosic biofuels and other biofuels, saw a job increase of 1.7% (1,962 new jobs).

Compared to 2021, the corn ethanol industry employed 35,152 workers in 2022, an increase of 1.6% (561 workers).

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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.