Phytophthora

• Syngenta potato hotline adds text message Alerts

  

  Syngenta continues partnerships with key universities in Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota, Oregon and Washington to bring late blight hotlines to US potato growers in 2013.»

  United States

  April 25, 2013

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  Syngenta International AG

• Simple mesh cover could stop potato psyllid

  

  A simple mesh cover could be the answer to halting New Zealand's most devastating tomato and potato pests, the tomato potato psyllid.»

  New Zealand

  April 09, 2013

• Phytophthora infestans KE-1 is spreading rapidly across East Africa

  

  Njoroge is studying a new lineage of Phytophthora infestans called KE-1 that is spreading rapidly across East Africa. »

  Kenya

  March 12, 2013

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  International Potato Center (CIP)

• "Sarpo Mira" potato variety "plant of the week" in The Guardian

  

  This week , the potato variety Sarpo Mira was named Plant of the week in the British Newspaper "The Guardian"»

  United Kingdom

  February 27, 2013

• University of Maine looking for blight-resistant potatoes

  

  Potato breeding developments being researched by graduate students in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences of the University of Maine look to save the future of Maine’s iconic crop.»

  United States

  February 19, 2013

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  University of Maine (Cooperative Extension Potato program)

• Late blight pathogen blocks RNA silencing pathways of potato plants

  

  When a pathogen attacks a plant, infection usually follows after the plant’s immune system is compromised.  A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside focused on Phytophthora and deciphered how it succeeded in crippling the potato plant’s immune system.»

  United States

  February 08, 2013

• El tizón tardio de la papa causado por Phytophtora infestans, en Bolivia

  

  Boletín técnico elaborado por el proyecto "Evaluación del impacto de las variaciones climáticas en el manejo de la enfermedad tizón tardío de la papa en zonas endémicas altoandinas del departamento de Cochabamba". El equipo investigadores está formado por Mario Coca,...»

  Bolivia

  September 23, 2012

• Modern DNA Techniques Applied to Nineteenth-Century Potatoes

  

  Researchers led by Professor Bruce Fitt, now at the University of Hertfordshire, have used modern DNA techniques on late nineteenth-century potatoes to show how the potato blight may have survived between cropping seasons after the Irish potato famine of the...»

  United Kingdom

  September 23, 2012

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