Combined approaches for combating Potato Virus Y
It would be difficult to find any commercial potato grower in Canada who is not aware that the disease known most commonly as “PVY” is a serious threat to the successful production of an acceptable...
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Viruses Causing Tuber Necrosis, Part II: PMTV and TRV
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). According to Huimin Xu, research scientist...
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Signs of resistance should be answered with careful resistance management strategies. Stakeholders in the potato industry, from members of the scientific community to manufacturers of crop protectants...
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Tackling Acrylamide
Acrylamide is causing concern in the industry, but there may be hope on the horizon in the form of new acrylamide-preventing technologies. The term “acrylamide” has been showing up in mass media...
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Killing Weeds with Less
How banded herbicide applications can help the environment, and also pay off for potato producers. Successful weed management is one of the cornerstones of successful commercial potato production,...
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Promoting Potatoes — British Style
Why the Canadian potato industry could learn much from the way potatoes are marketed in the United Kingdom. Canadian-born writer Nathaniel Branden once wrote: “In a world in which the total of human...
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Promoting Potatoes — The American Way
How the United States Potato Board is fuelling potato sales in international markets. The United States Potato Board was created in 1971, the result of a concerted effort by the American potato...
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Promoting Potatoes in New Zealand and South Africa
How two Southern Hemisphere nations are leading the way in innovative potato marketing. In the past two issues of Spud Smart, we focused on potato promotion initiatives developed by industry groups in...
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Boosting Fertility Through Testing
Petiole and leaf tissue analysis represent important tools in fertility management of potato crops. New advances in tissue analysis of potato crops could give growers an early warning of nutrient...
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Potato Wart
This persistent potato pathogen renders tubers unrecognizable — and unfit for human consumption. Here’s a primer on the disease, and what can be done to combat it. Most commercial potato growers in...
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