Other Plant Disease -- United States
The Maine Potato Board [MPB] announced recently that 60 percent more seed potato lots tested in 2019-2020 were rejected than in 2018-2019. A total of 7.3 percent of all seed potato lots were rejected. It was the highest rejection rate since 2012-2013.
The results were emblematic of a significant problem across the country: new strains of potato virus Y [PVY] that are harder to spot during production than previous strains, MPB's Andrew Plant said. The primary cause of these rejections was
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7017826&promed&0
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