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Late blight, the same disease that caused Ireland's potato famine in the 19th century, was confirmed in three Pennsylvania counties last week.

Researchers recommend potato growers in the Pacific Northwest intensify their field scouting programs for the potato psyllids that spread the crop disease zebra chip.

Oregon State University researchers say they've found two fields in their region harboring thousands of volunteer potato plants infected with the Liberibacter bacterium that causes the crop disease zebra chip.

Pakistani exporters of potato are facing a loss of millions of dollars as Russia has stopped clearance of consignments after complaining that the potatoes from Pakistan are infected with a disease.

Bayer CropScience will have two new products available for potato growers in two to three years' time, subject to approval.

The Plant Pathology Department at North Dakota State University will again be providing the potato Blightline service at no charge to the potato industry of North Dakota and western Minnesota in 2012.

The blight fungicide containing Initium and dimethomorph, Zampro DM, has had reduction of tuber blight incidence added to its label, in addition to the control of late foliar blight.

Rhizoctonia is running rife in cold, wet potato seedbeds and hampering crop emergence this season.

A highly cited recent article in the Idaho Falls based Post Register stated that there were new detections of Potato Cyst Nematodes in Idaho. The headline also made it to PotatoPro's News updates. The Idaho Potato Commission has provided a statement c...

As part of the Potato Council’s ‘Fight against blight’ campaign, the mapping of late blight outbreaks has demonstrated outgrade piles remain a significant source of blight in potato crops.

Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture say a microscopic parasite that damages potato crops has been found in three more eastern Idaho fields, bringing the number of infected fields to 15.

Er wordt door de NAK en BQ Support weer intensief gecontroleerd op onafgedekte aardappel- en uienafvalhopen. Niet of onvoldoende afgedekte afvalhopen met daarop uitgelopen aardappelen en uien zijn vanaf 15 april strafbaar.

The International Potato Center (CIP) announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation.Jan Kreuze, Ph.D., principal virologist at CIP, will pursue an innovative global hea...

The decision support system “Blight Management” (“Skimmelstyring”) could in the future give Danish potato growers more effective control of potato late blight and reduce the use of fungicides.

Una de las infecciones microbianas más frecuentes entre especies de interés para los agricultores, como la patata, es la podredumbre blanda de algunas de sus zonas que hace que el cultivo quede inutilizado. Un equipo internacional de investigadores, l...

Internal Heat Necrosis, or IHN, has many aliases. They include internal brown spot, physiological internal necrosis, internal browning, internal brown fleck, and chocolate spot. Whatever you choose to call this physiological disorder, it is an economi...

How about standing eye-to-eye with the largest Hex Polisher? Curious about the very latest design in the field of clay and salt-bath technology? In that case, why not visit the open days this coming 10 and 11 May being held by Tummers Methodic at Hooge...

De Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA) heeft bij 8 aardappeltelers in Zuid-Holland en Zeeland ringrot aangetroffen. De partijen aardappelen zijn opgespoord en worden uit de handel gehaald. Ringrot is een besmettelijke aardappelziekte die nie...