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A diagnostic lab had to confirm these potato mop-top virus (PMTV) symptoms. Note concentric arcs that can occur with these viruses. This textbook symptom of spraing can be misleading because it does ...

The 2020/21 potato storage season is proving to be one of the most challenging yet for the potato industry. With storage season fast approaching, harvest provides the best opportunity to familiarise yourself ...

CALS Researcher Leads National Project The University of Idaho will lead a $3.2 million project to combat microscopic worms that threaten potato production. The project, which focuses on the pale cyst nematode ...

Damage caused by ride needles has become more and more common in recent years. On the one hand, potato growers are facing the elimination of a number of chemicals. On the other ...

Preserving the potato and maintaining its quality, reducing or even avoiding possible damage, has become a challenge for equipment manufacturers specialized in this task. The mechanized harvesting of potatoes shows a constant ...

Potatoes are the only crop that can be grown relatively easily in all regions of China. In 2018, China's potato production was about 18 million metric tons, and due to the expansion ...

Agricultural enterprises and farmers of the Tambov region have begun harvesting potatoes. This year, “second bread” is present in the crop rotation of 35 commodity producers, who allotted 3 hectares for it. ...

“Understanding the mechanism of tuber initiation in potato provides a new strategy to increase yields of a crop that is absolutely pivotal for global food security.”

Chemical, mechanical, thermal or electrical defraying...? Several solutions are available to succeed in this intervention. The aim of the defeasing is to completely and rapidly destroy the vegetation to control the caliber, control the ...

Tholen-at the moment they are at Warnez Potatoes making a lot of noise. "However, we are waiting for a little rain to move on. Last week it was quite dry so we ...

Andy Robinson Assistant Professor, Extension Potato Agronomist North Dakota State University and University of MinnesotaHarlene Hatterman-Valenti Associate Professor, High Value Crop Production North Dakota State University Potatoes can have reduced yield and ...

EU project "ADAPT" examines how the crop adapts to environmental stressThe potato is one of the most important staple foods in the world. It is also of enormous economic importance as a ...

Symptoms of PMTV: Infected plants do not always show symptoms and symptom development depends on potato cultivar, virus strain and the environment. Foliar symptoms will only occur when disease develops from infected ...

• The Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Vienna coordinates a consortium of 17European leading academic research institutions, potato breeders, a non-profit EUassociation, a government agency and a screening technology ...

The 2020 summer season is likely to turn out to be a Caporetto for Venetian potatoes. The dry spring, the costs of processing and collection are a lethal mix for tubers red soils of Guà the river , cultivated in ...

Symptoms of potato mop top virus A diagnostic lab had to confirm these potato mop-top virus (PMTV) symptoms. Note concentric arcs that can occur with these viruses. This textbook symptom of spraing ...

Potato growers have sufficient alternatives to Chlorine IPC for long-term storage, according to storage research by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) Open Crops. The results of MD spraying in the field, supplemented with ...

Arable farmers Henk and Rick Meijer use MH in their potatoes as standard for sprouting inhibition and controlling storage. For long-term storage, they often extend the dormancy by 1.4Sight. Even without Chlorine IPC there ...

James Hutton Institute plant scientists have discovered that a specific protein encoded by the potato genome is a key component of tuberisation, the process by which the potato plant initiates and develops ...

Nutrient uptake curves Nutrients uptake is at its greatest during tuber bulking up (intensive volume increase process). The amount of nutrients removed by a potato crop is closely related to yield. Usually, ...

1.1 The plant - how to grow potato The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is an herbaceous annual that grows up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall and produces tubers, which are botanically thickened stems ...

Hybrid seeds are key to improving the productivity of smallholder farmers and necessary to meet projected food demands by 2050.Jan 13, 2020 Solynta today announced the grant of U.S. Patent Serial No. ...

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 ...

Usually, the Loess Plateau fields are plowed, or tilled, after the harvest and left bare until spring planting. Usually, the Loess Plateau fields are plowed, or tilled, after the harvest and left ...

The General Manager of United Potato Growers of Canada, Kevin MacIsaac, released a report on the final potato harvest situation in Canada. Kevin MacIsaac: Unfortunately this has been a very difficult harvest ...