News on Dickeya / Blackleg from United Kingdom

Scottish Potato Industry unites to fund major Blackleg Research project
August 12, 2017

Scottish Potato Industry unites to fund major Blackleg Research project

In Scotland, a group of major potato businesses and public sector organisations have sponsored a £242,000 (USD 313,000) research project aimed at reducing the impact of potato disease blackleg on the Scottish seed potato industry.
AHDB committed to keep the UK Seed Potato Industry healthy
November 10, 2016

AHDB committed to keep the UK Seed Potato Industry healthy

AHDB Potatoes has pledged to work closely with the seed potato sector and Scottish Government to ensure that the industry maintains a low level of the bacterial disease blackleg.
New ‘Focus on Potato’ Webcast Helps Potato Grower Minimize Spread of Blackleg
May 26, 2016

New ‘Focus on Potato’ Webcast Helps Potato Growers Minimize the Spread of Blackleg

Blackleg, caused by strains of soft rot bacteria known as Dickyea, has traditionally had little impact on North American potato production, but it now appears to be on the move throughout Europe and could increasingly threaten growers in the Eastern United States.
March 09, 2012

La producción de papa del Reino Unido amenazada por enfermedad que afecta a Europa

Los cultivos de papa en el Reino Unido se encuentran expuestos al riesgo de una nueva y agresiva enfermedad que se ha extendido rápidamente por todo el resto de Europa. La enfermedad, Dickeya solani, ha sido vista por primera vez hace sólo siete años, ...
March 05, 2012

UK potato crop at risk from aggressive new disease

An aggressive strain of disease is a major threat to the country’s potato industry, a leading researcher has warned.
November 12, 2010

Dickeya Solani discovered in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Farm minister Michelle Gildernew MP MLA has announced that a new strain of the potato disease Blackleg has been confirmed.
October 15, 2010

More action on Dickeya by Scottish Government

The Scottish Government has outlined further measures it is taking to prevent the spread of the highly aggressive potato bacterial pathogen Dickeya Solani.
October 10, 2010

Suspect potato lots (Dickeya) to be processed outside Scotland

Minimising risk of Dickeya solani infections in Scotland is a key policy for the Scottish government.
 Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA)
October 07, 2010

Seed potatoes and diseases: SASA defends control systems

The authorities in charge of ensuring the continued high health status of the Scottish seed potato crop yesterday mounted a robust defence of the control systems that are now in place.
 Seed Industry Event
October 04, 2010

Keep up-to-date on the latest potato disease information, growers urged

Potato industry delegates attending this year’s Seed Industry Event at Crieff Hydro on October 26 will have the opportunity of questioning researchers on the latest developments concerning potato diseases such as Dickeya solani and potyviruses.
July 07, 2010

Additional cases of Dickeya solani identified in Scotland

The number of cases of a potentially devastating soil-borne bacterium that could cause significant potato production problems in Scottish seed potatoes has doubled.The Scottish Government yesterday admitted it had found two more cases of Dickeya solani...
July 03, 2010

Scottish seed potato business at risk after Dickeya solani outbreak

The Scottish seed potato industry has reacted with anger to the confirmation of another crop of potatoes being infected with the highly infectious and transmissible potato disease dickeya solani which was found in a sample of ware potatoes grown last y...
May 27, 2010

Infectious potato disease Dickeya Solani found in Scotland

The infectious potato disease Dickeya solani has been found in a ware crop growing in Perthshire.The species is an aggressive, form of the seed-borne bacterial disease, blackleg.Scotland had recently established rules to keep the disease out. But repor...

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