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Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of late blight, has evolved to overcome fungicides and major resistance genes that have been bred into commercial potato cultivars.

Scottish potato growers were yesterday reminded to exercise particular care in sourcing safe and healthy seed potatoes following the discovery of three cases of ring rot in the Netherlands.

Met het droog weer, dat de kans op beurse plekken verhoogt, op komst roept de Potato Council in Engeland telers op om een actieve houding aan te nemen en gedurende het seizoen alle stappen van de oogst goed te letten op de kwaliteit van het product.  “...

Stormont officials are facing a grilling by Assembly Members over an embarrassing international incident in which potatoes exported from Northern Ireland were rejected for being diseased. Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) represen...

With dry weather exacerbating the risk of bruising potatoes at harvest, Potato Council has called on growers to take a proactive stance and make quality assessments at all stages of harvesting, from lifting to store loading.

SAC 1st Class Honours graduate, Amanda MacLennan, from the Black Isle used the recent Potatoes In Practice Event near Dundee to present the results of her research into Pit rot of potatoes.

In the United Kingdom, potato Late blight fungicides Consento and Prompto (fenamidone + propamocarb) have gained label extensions for protection of potato crops against Early blight (Alternaria).

Lack of rain has affected most of England and Wales and unusually dry ground may result in higher levels of common scab than in the last few years, says Potato Council technical executive Chris Steele.

Potato growers in the United Kingdom have two additional blight fungicide choices this year after BASF launched two new products into an already crowded market.

Scientists at East Malling Research (EMR) - recognised as world experts on water management - have found a way to significantly reduce the amount of water used to grow potatoes commercially, after transferring the knowledge from early work with strawberries.

The future sustainability of the potato supply chain is at risk from increasing threats from new organisms that can potentially devastate a crop.

Un equipo científico financiado con fondos comunitarios y dirigido por el Laboratorio Sainsbury del Parque Científico de Norwich (Reino Unido) ha descubierto al responsable del tizón tardío o mildiú de la patata y el tomate y el mildiú lanoso de verdur...

More than 250 potato growers, agronomists and industry advisors braved sub-zero temperatures to attend the first ADAS Syngenta Potato Conference

Researchers funded by the BBSRC Crop Science Initiative have made a discovery that could instigate a paradigm shift in breeding resistance to Phytophthora infestans

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