How to Use botrytis in a Sentence

botrytis

noun
  • The second week was cold and rainy and brought black rot (botrytis).
    — Tom Hyland, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • When my blooms have botrytis, cut them off and get them out of the garden.
    — Rita Perwich, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 May 2017
  • The thick-skinned grapes are prone to fungal disease such as botrytis.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Gray mold, or botrytis, is a common problem on many fruits and flowers.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
  • This includes powdery mildew, white and gray molds like botrytis, slime mold, and black spot, Bradley says.
    — Michelle Mastro, The Spruce, 23 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The most common plant diseases, like powdery mildew or botrytis, a fungal rot, appear on peony foliage and stems.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The most common plant diseases, like powdery mildew or botrytis, a fungal rot, appear on peony foliage and stems.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • In warm, wet weather, peonies can be infected by a fungus called botrytis that causes dark spots on leaves and stems and shrivels up buds.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Pests and Disease Common tulip diseases, such as tulip fire and botrytis blight, can stunt growth and leave foliage and blooms stunted.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Now, with more Sémillon in the blend and sensible use of new oak, the wine now shows a great deal of bright fruitiness and layers of botrytis flavors.
    — John Mariani, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This high humidity moisture fosters the occurrence of botrytis and supports its growth.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Too little moisture, and there might be no botrytis activity of any kind; too much, and the collaborator becomes a killer.
    — Saveur Editors, Saveur, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Lusciously sweet, with notes of apricot, honey, and botrytis complexity.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • 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
  • Your homemade baking soda spray can also be used as a treatment for other fungal diseases, like anthracnose, scab, botrytis, and black spot on roses.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 May 2025
  • When things aren’t quite right Sometimes weather conditions cause botrytis, powdery mildew, rust or blackspot on susceptible roses.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Suzanne mentioned two products that are preventive biological disease controls of powdery mildew, blackspot, botrytis, rust and downy mildew.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
  • Their genetic makeup also offers resistance to beetles, powdery mildew, peony blight, and botrytis.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 June 2026
  • This method is used for some of the greats like Sauternes and Tokaji and is caused by a fungus called botrytis cinerea that grows once a grape is fully ripe (this is where the term ‘botrytized wine’ comes from).
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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, 29 Dec. 2023
  • 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 conditions were conducive to diseases such mildew and botrytis, which winemakers resist by treating vines or removing leaves to improve air circulation.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • 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
  • Morning fog and ideal temperatures moderated by the region’s two rivers create the perfect condition to allow noble rot or botrytis to form and concentrate the grape’s sugars.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But in 1775—for reasons still unknown—the horseback courier arrived back two weeks late, when botrytis had already infected Riesling grapes growing in the vineyards.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2025

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