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Finish blight programmes growers advised

Potato growers should keep up fungicide programmes to protect against the spread of resistant late blight strains as rain returns, says Ed Maule, Agrii’s lead technical advisor for potatoes.  “We…

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Finish blight programmes growers advised

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Potato growers should keep up fungicide programmes to protect against the spread of resistant late blight strains as rain returns, says Ed Maule, Agrii’s lead technical advisor for potatoes.  “We learned last year that even in a dry year it can still turn wet late in the season and then, all of a sudden, EU_43 or EU_46 appears,” he cautions. Fortunately, Fight Against Blight monitoring has not detected EU_43 this season, although the other new resistant strain, EU_46, has been detected in two separate outbreaks, says Dr David Cooke, senior research development scientist at the James Hutton Institute. Fight Against…