Neopestalotiopsis leaf, fruit, and crown rot (Neo-P) is an important emerging fungal disease of strawberry that can affect every part of the plant (crown, roots, leaves, fruit). The symptoms were first widely known in the US on strawberry in 2018, following an outbreak in Florida in annual plasticulture fields. The disease was first confirmed in fruiting fields from North Carolina in 2022.
Here are resources growers need to have available to understand and combat the disease: