Potato diseases
Wireworms in Your Fields: Causes, Detection, and Effective Control Strategies
Wireworms thrive in poorly managed agricultural systems. One major reason for their proliferation is crop rotation neglect. Repeatedly planting susceptible crops...
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Zorvec™ Entecta®: The Breakthrough Solution Against Late Blight in Potato and Tomato Crops – Boosting Yields and Sustainability
In 2024, Spain’s potato production saw a 0.6% increase, reinforcing its stability in the agricultural sector (Eurostat, 2024). Meanwhile, processed tomato...
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PEI’s Potato Wart Crisis: How a Government Buy-Back Program Could Reshape Farming and Trade
The Government of Prince Edward Island (PEI) has launched the PEI Index Field Buy-Back Program, a strategic initiative to purchase farmland...
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Breeding ‘Wow!’ Potatoes: How Science and Farmers Are Fighting Late Blight in Kenya
Potato late blight (Phytophthora infestans) is notorious for causing the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s, yet it continues to...
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Potato Blight Resistance Crisis: How to Optimize Fungicide Strategies to Protect Crop Yields
Potato late blight (Phytophthora infestans) remains one of the most destructive diseases in agriculture, causing significant yield losses worldwide. Recently,...
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Battling Golden Potato Nematode: Successes and Strategies in Kurgan Region
Farmers and agronomists in Russia’s Kurgan region are making progress in the fight against the golden potato nematode (Globodera rostochiensis),...
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Powdery Scab in Potatoes: Emerging Threats and Innovative Management Strategies
Powdery scab is a soil-borne disease that thrives in cool, moist conditions, causing unsightly lesions on potato tubers and galls...
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Breaking New Ground: How Mutagenesis Technology is Combating Bacterial Wilt in Potato Crops
Potato farming faces significant challenges due to bacterial wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum), a devastating disease that causes severe yield losses worldwide....
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Fighting the Leafhopper Threat: Germany Grants Emergency Pesticide Approval to Protect Potato Yields
Germany’s potato sector is taking decisive action against a new agricultural threat: the reed leafhopper (Hyalesthes obsoletus). This native insect,...
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Keeping Potatoes Disease-Free: Why Lime Can Harm More Than Help
Managing soil pH is one of the most effective strategies to prevent potato diseases like common scab. While compost and...
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Climate Change and the Potato Crisis: How Warming Temperatures Are Reshaping Disease Risks and Threatening Global Food Security
The potato—a staple food for over a billion people and the world’s third most important food crop—is under siege. Once...
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Fighting Potato Wart: How Canadian Scientists Are Working to Defuse One of the Most Persistent Threats to Potato Farming
In a quiet research field just outside St. John’s, Newfoundland, a decades-old scientific experiment may hold the key to protecting...
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Over 1,600 Hectares Quarantined in Russia’s Perm Region Due to Golden Potato Cyst Nematode Outbreak
More than 1,600 hectares of agricultural land in Perm Krai, Russia, have been placed under quarantine following the detection of...
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Polish Ware Potatoes in the UK Test Positive for Ring Rot: What Farmers Need to Know
The UK Plant Health Service has identified two shipments of Polish ware potatoes infected with Ring Rot (Clavibacter sepedonicus), a...
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New Polysaccharide-Based Solution to Protect Potatoes from Harmful Bacteria
A Breakthrough in Potato Protection: Russian Scientists Develop a New Bio-Nano Solution A team of Siberian researchers, in collaboration with...
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The Hidden Threat: Potato Cancer Endangers Oryol’s Harvest
A Dangerous Disease for Potatoes in Oryol Potato farmers in Oryol are being warned about a growing threat to their...
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Protecting Canada’s Potato Industry: The New National Potato Wart Response Plan
Potato wart, caused by the Synchytrium endobioticum fungus, is one of the most serious diseases affecting potato crops globally. In...
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Tackling Common Scab in Potatoes: New Research Seeks to Uncover the Causes and Improve Disease Management
Common scab is a persistent problem in potato farming, affecting not only the aesthetic quality of the tubers but also...
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Understanding the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s New Potato Wart Response Plan
A Call for Collaboration in Potato Cultivation and Protection The agricultural community, particularly those involved in potato cultivation, is currently...
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First report of Colletotrichum coccodes causing black dot on potato in Mauritius
Black dot (Colletotrichum coccodes) has become an economically significant potato tuber disease due to its capacity to cause early foliage...
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The Irish Meteorological Service,Met Éireann, announces Potato Blight Advisory for Ireland
Met Éireann, The Irish Meteorological Service, has issued a Status Yellow advisory for potato blight across Ireland until tomorrow morning....
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Operation Spray Less: Monitoring Late Blight in P.E.I. Potato Fields
In Prince Edward Island, watershed groups are actively monitoring potato fields for signs of late blight, conducting weekly checks at...
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Soilborne diseases of potatoes: black dot of potatoes
Black dot is a tuber blemish disease of potatoes, caused by Colletotrichum coccodes. Nowadays this is becoming severe constraint for...
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Soil-borne diseases of potatoes: powdery scab
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)...
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Preventing the development of late blight resistance to fungicides
Potato late blight is one of the most devastating diseases of potato. In conventional potato production, this mainly controls through...
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