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Late Blight of Potato
... tubers in storage showing signs of fusarium dry rot or bacterial soft rot causing further storage problems. The fungus is able to survive winter in infected tubers in storage, in the compost and in the soil. It is most important to destroy tubers and foliage of infected ...
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Scab on Potatoes
... gardens. Cultural controls are the most effective and include the following: Do not plant scab-infected tubers. Use clean seed every year. Rotate planting site for potatoes Keep soil moisture high at ...
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Bacterial Ring Rot of Potatoes, HYG-3103-95
... tubers may show slightly sunken, dry, cracked areas. Infected tubers are often invaded by secondary decay organisms which may lead to complete breakdown. Symptoms of ring rot in the vascular tissue of infected tubers ... is confirmed to be present, a thorough cleanup must be undertaken. Dispose of all infected tubers away from potato production areas. Clean all surfaces of storages and equipment to ...
ohioline.osu.edu

Potato Pink Rot, Pythium Leak and Seed-Piece Decay, HYG-3104-95
... of infected tubers are often dark brown. Decaying tubers remain intact, but are spongy and odorless. If squeezed, a clear liquid will exude. When infected tubers are ... tubers cool and as dry as possible during harvest, loading, transit and storage. Grade out infected tubers as much as possible before placing harvested tubers in storage. Store lots of harvested tubers containing many infected tubers ...
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Vegetable Crops - pt 4
... weather, a whitish moldy growth appears on the underside of infected leaves. This fungus causes a firm rot of tubers in field and storage, later becoming a soft rot. Use ... until vines are killed by chemical treatment and infected tubers have decayed completely. Pink Rot of Tubers (fungi - Phytophthora parasitica and P. cryptogea): Diseased tubers are spongy and initially discolored around the ...
plantpathology.tamu.edu

Disease Cycle
... ). Infected tubers that are planted or cull tubers that survive the winter may be sources of the pathogen that initiate epidemics the following season. Figure 2. Potato tubers infected with ... tubers in a crop are infected, store the crop in cool, dry conditions. If infected potatoes are stored at high relative humidity and moderate temperatures, soft rot can be severe, destroying infected tubers ...
ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu

Potato viruses - DIVERSITY
... of the leaves went mottled. The yield, when the tubers were taken out three weeks later, was down by over 75%, and the tubers were poor quality. For example, Golden Wonder tasted ... diseased plants, became affected in all of their parts except their true seeds. By planting infected tubers the disease was continued. The plants were stunted, their leaves rolled up into trumpet shapes ...
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Bacterial ring rot
... or received infected stocks. More than 165 000 potato tubers were tested during the outbreak. On the outbreak farm, one stock of the Provento variety and one stock of a Provento/Almera admixture were found to be infected ... infected tubers, and a major concern for plant pathologists in Wales and other parts of the UK is the possibility that seed potato stocks could be infected ...
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... tubers are infected during harvest but show no symptoms until they have been placed in storage. Once in storage, the fungus can spread quickly from late blight infected tubers to healthy tubers. In addition, severely infected tubers are often infected by secondary organisms that cause soft ...
www.extension.umn.edu

No Fuss: Store Your Tubers in Plastic Wrap
... tubers from the same clumps in vermiculite and half in plastic wrap. Interestingly enough, those that rotted did so by both methods, which leads us to believe that the clumps were infected prior to storage and were unlikely to have survived in any storage method. There were also occasions in plastic wrapped bundles when one or two tubers ...
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