Noticias sobre los Defectos y Enfermedades de la Papa

Three years ago, 5% of Canterbury’s potatoes were being lost to a disease which threatened to shut down the industry. Now the pest responsible has been driven off thanks to Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki Lincoln University researchers.

In an examination of the genetic material found in historic potato leaves, North Carolina State University researchers reveal more about the tit-for-tat evolutionary changes occurring in both potato plants and the pathogen that caused the 1840s Irish potato famine.

This year’s Hutchinsons Potato Demonstration Day, held at Worth Farms, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, focussed on potential solutions to address some of the key challenges faced by UK potato growers.

En el valle del Duero la temperatura y la falta de lluvias han limitado la incidencia de enfermedades. La alternaría parece ser la única excepción.

How can we improve potato grading capacity and reduce labor using a potato grading machine?

En Castilla y León se pone en marcha un plan piloto para la detección temprana de enfermedades que puedan afectar cultivos.

Los precios responden a fluctuaciones en la disponibilidad. Se ven aumentos de hasta el 200%.

Nine Global Potato Industry Award Winners were honoured at the 12th World Potato Congress in Adelaide, Australia.

El gobierno de Colombia esta preocupado por la incidencia de la enfermedad conocida como punta morada.

How can potato packers ensure desired potato quality and consistency using potato AI grading technology?

El CIP ha obtenido resultados sobresaliente en el desarrollo de su variedad CIP-Matilde, resistente al tizón tardío gracias a los cruzamientos con variedades silvestres.

El fantasma de la gran hambruna irlandesa de finales del siglo XIX vuelve a hacerse presente en la Unión Europea.

Scientists have discovered that calcium plays a significant role in enhancing the resistance of potato plants to bacterial wilt. This disease causes worldwide losses of potatoes costing USD 19 billion per year.

Alerta por riesgo de tizón tardío en las Islas Canarias. Se implementan medidas de control y prevención.

High input cost and unfavorable weather hit potato output in Bangladesh, with late blight causing added damage.

A groundbreaking wind-operated aerial insect trap designed to revolutionize pest management in agriculture has been developed by a team of scientists at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Potato Research Institute (ICAR-CPRI) in Shimla.

It is not easy to be a potato farmer in Europe these days, and it may get even worse: To maintain the harvest, farmers need a sufficient number of highly efficient fungicides to cover a spray scheme for control of Late Blight (Phytophthora infestans).

El Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ICA) dio la alerta por la plaga que puede comprometer seriamente los cultivos de la regiones más céntricas del país.