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United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the resumption of tablestock potatoes from Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, into Puerto Rico. USDA has determined the importation of these potatoes under ...

Getting a seedling on the variety list as a variety is the dream of many seed potato growers. Registering a new variety is very expensive for small trading houses. That is why it is ...

Andrea Parish’s dogs are saving potato farmers throughout the country big money by quickly sniffing out a couple of significant crop diseases. Her canine’s specialize in detecting potato virus Y and bacterial ring ...

The national survey conducted this fall involved soil testing across areas of Canada that grow seed potatoes (except Newfoundland) to confirm that unregulated areas of Canada remain free from potato wart. “It ...

(NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series on the Vision 2026 program to rethink the seed potato certification system.) A crop consultant’s persistence to help seed potato growers and belief ...

The recent discovery of potato wart disease on Prince Edward Island in Canada, and the subsequent embargo on export of potatoes from the province to the rest of Canada and the U.S. ...

After the cultivation of starch potatoes in 2021, the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has identified wart disease on four agricultural plots in the northeast of the Netherlands. Inspection ...

A recent announcement from the National Potato Council (NPC) shows that this organization alongside 13 other US potato associations sent a letter to USDA Secretary, Tom Vilsack, asking for the US government’s ...

Over her years working in the P.E.I. potato industry, Mary Kay Sonier has become everyone’s go-to person.

Harvest 80 tons of potatoes with 25 grams of seed per hectare? That's where it's definitely going, according to R&D director Edwin van der Vossen of Solynta. Now that the technology behind the hybrid ...

Scientists from the International Potato Centre (CIP) and the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), Ilorin, Kwara State are breeding and helping to disseminate vitamin A-rich sweet potatoes tolerant to drought.

Corona is forcing the potato trading houses to think about a different set-up of the traditional variety shows this year. A number of companies opt for an event online, others have decided to ...

The NVWA has established an infection with wart disease on two plots in the municipality of Stadskanaal (GR). Additional research in the area has not led to more finds. The reason for research ...

Corona is forcing the potato trading houses to think about a different format for the traditional variety shows this year. A number of companies opt for an event online, others have decided to ...

Greenvale Seed, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of seed potatoes has announced it’s intention to exclusively supply UK growers with a new variety of potato. The variety named Tyson lives up ...

During the annual potato variety show at Agrico the topic of discussion was not limited to unique varieties on display. The impact of the excessive heat and drought this season on the ...

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board is pleased to announce a new plan for potato disinfection on Prince Edward Island. This revised program was formed through collaboration with industry members and the ...

Synchytrium endobioticum causes potato wart disease. Synchytrium endobioticum is an obligate parasite which does not produce hyphae but sporangia, which contain motile zoospores. Summer sporangia are thin-walled and short-lived. They are formed ...

Potato wart disease is one of the most important quarantine diseases of potato in the world. The disease is caused by Synchytrium endobioticum, which after infection causes tumour-like outgrowths near a meristematic tissue. The ...

Synchytrium endobioticum is an A2 pest for many regions, and details of its biology, distribution and economic importance can be found in the EPPO Global Database. In the EPPO National Regulatory Control System ...

Common scab is one of the oldest bacterial diseases of potatoes.

Quarantine pests are regulated to avoid their introduction to areas where the pests are not present.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has the authority to take action on any of the pests ...

Actinomycetes are a unique group of bacteria that occupy an intermediate position between bacteria and fungi. Although they are mostly saprophytes and play a crucial role in the decomposition of organic matter, ...

Trials are planned for 2022 in three locations as part of a Specialty Crop Research Initiative grant. For potato growers across the U.S., potato virus Y (PVY) is a serious problem that ...