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Another Case Of Late Blight Has Been Confirmed

Late blight was confirmed in a field of potatoes near Carman Aug. 18 – the fourth infection detected in Manitoba this summer, said Vikram Bisht, a plant pathologist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI). Last year late blight – the fungal disease behind the Irish potato famine of the 1840s – was much
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Late Blight Moving North

Confirmed cases of late blight have been reported as of June 28 in the northeastern states of Delaware, New York and Virginia, the Manitoba government’s weekly potato news said July 5. No late blight found or reported in Manitoba. The sentinel plots, with potato and tomato plants, also are being regularly inspected, said Vikram Bisht,
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Home And Market Garden Losses From Blight Can’t Be Ignored

Most commercial potato farmers sprayed their way through last season and ended up with a normal- enough-looking crop. But 2010 was a heartbreaking year for home gardeners, as a nasty blight worked its way across Manitoba decimating all but the most remote or chemically treated tomatoes. First word of the blight appeared in a June
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Manitoba Tomatoes Ravaged By Disease This Year – for Sep. 9, 2010

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Nothing beats the taste of a homegrown, vine-ripened tomato, but there are a lot fewer this year due to fungal diseases that have defoliated plants and rotted the fruit. There’s no controlling it now, but Manitoba gardeners can pick uninfected fruit and let it ripen off the vine. They can also cut out the infected
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Potato Disease Detection Funded – for Aug. 12, 2010

A Quebec firm working on DNA-based disease detection and monitoring for potatoes will get $1.2 million in federal backing. Phytodata Inc. said it’s partnering with McCain Foods Canada to develop such detection systems. The federal funding will go toward work on new and “highly reliable” ways to monitor and detect major airborne diseases in potatoes,
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Potato Disease Detection Funded – for Aug. 12, 2010

A Quebec firm working on DNA-based disease detection and monitoring for potatoes will get $1.2 million in federal backing. Phytodata Inc. said it’s partnering with McCain Foods Canada to develop such detection systems. The federal funding will go toward work on new and “highly reliable” ways to monitor and detect major airborne diseases in potatoes,
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Late Blight In Manitoba Potatoes Under Control

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“It was going to be devastating if we had not talked about it (late blight) earlier.” – VIKRAM BISHT What could have been a late blight disaster this summer was averted by early detection and quick action on the part of potato farmers, a plant pathologist with Manitoba Agriculture and Food Initiatives says. Late blight
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New Strains Raise Long-Term Blight Risk

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Until the mid-1990s, Canadian potato growers’ late blight concerns were limited to a single genotype – the US-1 variant – and it was sensitive to the relatively cheap and widely available fungicide Ridomil, says AAFC plant pathologist Rick Peters. “That changed in 1994, with an influx of new strains,” says Peters. Suddenly growers found themselves

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