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March 29, 2011
Focus on Potato has launched a new webcast, which will be open access until May 31, 2011, titled "Early Blight: A Global Management Issue on Potatoes" by Walter Stevenson at the University of Wisconsin.
Managing early blight requires the careful integration of cultural and chemical methods, including rotation, choice of cultivar, plant nutrition and fungicide application.
Focus on Potato's latest webcast by Walter Stevenson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, is meant to help consultants, growers and practitioners diagnose and manage early blight of potato in the field and in storage.
This presentation will help users…
- Better understand key symptoms to help differentiate this disease from other common diseases.
- Understand how management elements play a role in reducing losses in yield and tuber quality
- Reduce reliance on weekly application of fungicides.
- Become aware of other important details about the pathogen, such as host and disease cycle.
View this presentation at http://www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/edcenter/seminars/potato/EarlyBlight/
Other presentations are available on the Focus on Potato website at www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/fop.
Focus on Potato is a publication of the Plant Management Network (www.plantmanagementnetwork.org), a nonprofit online publisher whose mission is to enhance the health, management, and production of agricultural and horticultural crops. It achieves this mission through its applied, science-based resources. PMN is jointly managed by the American Society of Agronomy, American Phytopathological Society, and Crop Science Society of America.
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