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This year the FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, is organising a photo competition where amateur and professional photographers can submit their images of healthy and unhealthy plants. The deadline has been extended to 15 January 2021, an excellent opportunity to offer the potato an international platform.
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Specialists present opportunities of late blight resistant biotech potatoes
On Tuesday March 21, 2023, Dr. Marc Ghislain and Dr. Eric Magembe of the International Potato Center (CIP) will be presenting the World Potato Congress (WPC) webinar on the deployment of late blight resistant biotech potatoes in Africa.
Potato tuber blemish diseases central in upcoming WPC webinar
On February 28, 2023 at 9.00am Eastern Standard Time, the World Potato Congress Inc. (WPC) presents a webinar by senior potato pathologist Dr. Alison Lees, entitled “Potato Tuber Blemish Diseases: Status and Management”.
Diseases occurring in the potato storage
Diseases that occasionally lead to considerable losses during storage include soft rot (Pectobacterium spp.), dry rot (Fusarium spp.), silver scurf (Helminthosporium), late blight (Phytophtora infestans), leak (Pythium) and pink rot (Phytophthora erythroseptica).
How to prevent and control potassium deficiency in potatoes
The behaviour of potassium (K) in clay soils mainly depends on the clay content and the type of clay mineral. Soils with clay minerals mainly consisting of illite, such as in the Netherlands, supply K through weathering. From soils with clay particles mainly consisting of kaolinite K may easily be leached out. Also in sandy…
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