Diseases

Major players in the potato industry are increasingly promoting sustainable pest management solutions—but many growers are already ahead of the curve. There are signs on...

Commercial potato growers are aware of the serious threat posed by two well- known pathogens,  potato mop-top virus (PMTV) and tobacco rattle virus (TRV)....

Each year, disease causes economic losses for many growers, but more options are on the way for the management of storage-related diseases. In Canada, numerous...

Canadian growers are facing six major potato storage diseases this season, says Khalil Al-Mughrabi, a pathologist at the New Brunswick Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture...

It would be difficult to find any commercial potato grower in Canada who is not aware that the disease known most commonly as “PVY”...

Although still at the experimental stage, initial results look promising for the use of spore traps as a tool for disease forecasting and fungicide...