Editing Garlic (section)

== Ecology ==
Garlic plants are usually [[Hardiness (plants)|hardy]] and not affected by many pests or diseases. Garlic plants are said to repel [[rabbits]] and [[mole (animal)|moles]].<ref name="AN" /> The [[California Department of Food and Agriculture]] conducts a certification program to assure freedom from [[nematode]] and white rot disease caused by ''[[Stromatinia cepivora]]'', two pathogens that can both destroy a crop and remain in the soil indefinitely once introduced.<ref name="SFNA" /> Garlic may also suffer from [[Pyrenochaeta terrestris|pink root]], a typically non-fatal disease that stunts the roots and turns them pink or red;<ref>{{cite web |title=UC IPM: UC Management Guidelines for Pink Root on Onion and Garlic |url=http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r584100711.html |access-date=April 14, 2010 |publisher=Ipm.ucdavis.edu}}</ref> or [[Puccinia porri|leek rust]], which usually appears as bright orange spots.<ref name="rhs" /> The larvae of the [[leek moth]] attack garlic by mining into the leaves or bulbs.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Landry |first=Jean-François |date=June 2007 |title=Taxonomic review of the leek moth genus Acrolepiopsis (Lepidoptera: Acrolepiidae) in North America |journal=The Canadian Entomologist |volume=139 |issue=3 |pages=319–353 |doi=10.4039/n06-098 |issn=1918-3240 |s2cid=86748199}}</ref>

[[Botrytis (fungus)|Botrytis]] neck and bulb rot is a disease of [[onion]], garlic, [[leek]] and [[shallot]]. ''[[Botrytis allii]]'' and ''Botrytis aclada'' cause this disease in onion and ''Botrytis porri'' causes it in garlic. According to the University of California,<blockquote>Initial symptoms usually begin at the neck, where affected tissue softens, becomes water-soaked, and turns brown. In a humid atmosphere, a gray and feltlike growth (where spores are produced) appears on rotting scales, and [[mycelia]] may develop between scales. Dark-brown-to-black sclerotia (the resting bodies of the pathogen) may eventually develop in the neck or between scales.<ref>[https://www2.ipm.ucanr.edu/agriculture/onion-and-garlic/Botrytis-Neck-and-Bulb-Rot/ Agriculture: Onion and Garlic Pest Management Guidelines: Botrytis Neck and Bulb Rot] by the University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources</ref></blockquote>