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HZPC says in a recent news article that the company’s growers know it better than anyone: a healthy soil is crucial for good potato growing. But a healthy soil offers more. It contributes to ...

John Innes Centre team isolated and tested hundreds of strains of Pseudomonas bacteria from the soil of a commercial potato field

The World Potato Congress is very excited to announce its first webinar of 2022. In preparation for the World Potato Congress being held from May 30 to June 2, 2022 in Dublin, Ireland, ...

Abstract Potato wart disease is considered one of the most important quarantine pests for cultivated potato and is caused by the obligate biotrophic chytrid fungus Synchytrium endobioticum. This review integrates observations from early potato ...

The covenant for the cultivation and sale of robust potato varieties is spreading across Europe. The United Kingdom, Belgium and France are also working on or are already working on such a list ...

The World Potato Congress Inc. is very excited to announce its first webinar of 2022. In preparation for the World Potato Congress being held from May 30 to June 2, 2022 in ...

RESEARCH RESULTS OF DEMO FIELDS PROMISING - ORGANIC SECTOR WANTS TO SWITCH 100% TO ROBUST VARIETIES The robust potato varieties grown on 36 demo fields in Flevoland have withstood the Phytophthora year ...

Single Phytophthora-resistant potato varieties in particular did not have an easy time this year. The fungal pressure was so high and long this season that the disease was difficult to control. Multiple resistances offer ...

During the Potato Variety Days 2021 from November 3-5, breeding companies and seed potato trading houses present their most promising varieties. Modern potato varieties form a solid foundation for the future of ...

Waitrose and Partners is set to be the first major retailer to sign up to The UK Robust Potato Pledge, which will see the group move away from the use of copper-based ...

Because potato growers need to identify and manage diseases in their fields, the AI-powered mobile app PlantVillage Nuru has been expanded to include them also. More than two million farmers in East ...

A team of at least 13 scientists from USA, France, Saudi Arabia and Great Britain recently released a paper that brings another new hope for potato growers around the world in their ...

Thanks to a team from the faculty of bio-engineering sciences at Ghent University that has developed a vaccine, potato blight could be prevented. The vaccine works like any other, according to Brussels ...

Not all robust potato varieties will survive this year when it comes to phytophthora resistance

In the space of five years, Sencrop has grown into a major supplier of weather stations for so-called connected networks in Europe. The weather stations provide local and accurate weather data. By sharing this ...

North Carolina State University researchers continue to track the evolution of different strains of the plant pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s, which set down roots in the ...

“The damage of Alternaria in potatoes is – certainly in recent years – greater than that of Phytophthora. Most growers have a strong focus on Phytophthora. But the consequences of Alternaria are still underestimated." ...

Two years ago, a team of potato scientists and researchers from across Canada launched a comprehensive study aimed at reducing the impact of Potato Early Dying (PED) disease — a long-established yield ...

re you using the right fungicides for the potato diseases you are attempting to control? Understanding how fungicides work can help you choose the right product and apply it for the best effect. Here ...

Plant pathologists studied the genomes of about 140 pathogen samples – historic and modern – from 37 countries on six continents to track the evolution of differing strains of Phytophthora infestans, a major ...

Many things can go wrong when growing a potato crop. Some problems are caused by biotic factors — living organisms like pathogens, weeds, insects, and nematodes. Other problems are abiotic — resulting ...

"We want to use everything we use in terms of resources as balance and efficiently as possible."

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 ...

The right time to start spraying is crucial against late blight. Resistance management when using fungicides is also moving more and more into focus. Many funds will expire after 2021. © landpixel Late blight ...

“Data has been passed to key partners across Europe to support integrated pest management approaches to blight control” Plant scientists at the James Hutton Institute are studying the evolution of late blight ...