St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
June 23 ,2015
Potato Leaf Roll Virus (PLRV) and Potato Virus Y (PVY) are two of the most serious viral diseases affecting potato growers in North America. These members of the Potyviridae family deliver a powerful one-two punch of quality and yield losses.
While these two viruses are related, each one has its own distinct epidemiology and should be treated individually.
In a new Focus on Potato webcast titled “Preventing the Spread of Potato Viruses:
What Insecticides Can and Cannot Do,” Andrei Alyokhin, Professor of applied entomology at the University of Maine, helps extension agents, consultants, growers, and other practitioners in North America optimize insecticide use for controlling aphid vectors of PLRV and PVY in their crops.
During this 20-minute presentation, viewers will learn the differences between persistently and non-persistently transmitted viruses, between colonizing and non-colonizing aphid species, and their implications for making proper decisions on using insecticides.
This presentation is open access through July 31, 2015.
View other presentations in the Focus on Potato resource at www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/fop.
Webcasts on a variety of other crops can be found in PMN’s Education Center.
Focus on Potato is a publication of the Plant Management Network. To get the most out of the Plant Management Network’s full line of resources, please sign up for PMN’s free electronic newsletter, PMN Update.
The Plant Management Network (www.plantmanagementnetwork.org) is a nonprofit online publisher whose mission is to enhance the health, management, and production of agricultural and horticultural crops. It achieves this mission through applied, science-based resources, like Focus on Potato.
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