Potato diseases

Black dot (Colletotrichum coccodes) has become an economically significant potato tuber disease due to its capacity to cause early foliage...

Met Éireann, The Irish Meteorological Service, has issued a Status Yellow advisory for potato blight across Ireland until tomorrow morning....

In Prince Edward Island, watershed groups are actively monitoring potato fields for signs of late blight, conducting weekly checks at...

Black dot is a tuber blemish disease of potatoes, caused by Colletotrichum coccodes. Nowadays this is becoming severe constraint for...

Powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea) is a fungal blemish disease of potatoes (https://gd.eppo.int/taxon/SPONSU). The “powder” is comprised of spore balls (cystosori)...

Potato late blight is one of the most devastating diseases of potato. In conventional potato production, this mainly controls through...

The main virus species in many potato growing regions is Potato Virus Y (PVY). Primary infection of PVY occurs in...

Silver scurf, caused by the fungus Helminthosporium solani, is primarily a blemish disease of potato (Solanum tuberosum) that has become...

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Clavibacter sepedonicus is a bacterial potato pathogen, threatening potato production across the world.  In some potato growing countries, this potato pathogen...

Different stages of tuber infection (photo by Maria A. Kuznetsova, All-Russian Phytopathology Research Institute, https://gd.eppo.int/taxon/CORBSE/photos) Clavibacter sepedonicus, causing potato ring...

Potatoes News announces that new albums with photos of disease symptoms of main potato diseases have been released. Now there...