Category: Diseases
Summit Agro launches new website, fungicide for late blight, fusarium, rhizoctonia
Timorex Act is a botanical broad-spectrum fungicide with preventative and curative activity based on an extract of the tree tea plant.
Potato plants most at risk of PVY during first three weeks
University of Idaho researchers conducted tests on Yukon Gold potatoes to determine when potato virus Y (PVY) innoculation did the most damage.
Wilbur-Ellis launches Embrece-EA crop protection performance booster
Embrece-EA from Wilbur-Ellis is a blend of surfactants designed to elevate the performance of fungicides, insecticides and miticides
Powdery scab focus of next World Potato Congress webinar
The interactive webinar on powdery scab is scheduled for 9 a.m. EDT Wednesday, March 18. It will be available to be viewed at potatocongress.org afterward.
Dutch potato growers criticized for overusing fungicides by agronomist
Denis Buckley says the dwindling arsenal of fungicides available to European potato growers has them using the ones that are available irresponsibly.
Fungicide OxiDate 5.0 approved for use in California
OxiDate 5.0 is registered to treat and control plant pathogens on a wide variety of crops, including potatoes.
Gowan acquires late blight, rhizoctonia protection agents from Bayer
Gowan Crop Protection has entered into agreements with Bayer AG to acquire rights to the active ingredients fenamidone and pencycuron.
Syngenta celebrates 40th anniversary
“Helping growers protect their seed investment has always been one of our core goals,” Ross Weikel, head of Syngenta Seedcare, said in a news release.
Researchers identify virus that increases late blight’s potency
The virus PiRV-2 has been found to increase spores and lesions in anywhere from nine to 125 more times in some strains of late blight.
New pythium, phytophthora fungicide to be available in 2020
Vive Crop Protection’s Xyler FC has been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency and will be available for application in 2020.
UW-Madison pathologist Gevens zeroed in on both early and late blight
Amanda Gevens, plant pathologist and associate professor at Wisconsin-Madison, spends her time studying potato late blight and early blight diseases.
Identifying and managing potato pink eye
Pink eye is a physiological disorder of tubers that often results in pinkish colored skin tissue, usually from the middle to bud end of tubers.
Potato late blight confirmed in Michigan
The positive late blight samples came from a home garden plot. Clinton County is located in the central region of Michigan’s lower peninsula.