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R263 Management of Tuber Water Status to Reduce Bruising

Aim: To establish the relationship between susceptibility to bruising and tuber water potential (turgor) for defined soil conditions.The research programme, which began in 2005, aimed to establish the...

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R294 Skin Spot Diagnostics

Aim: To determine if DNA-based diagnostics can be developed for Polyscytalum pustulans and can be used to identify stocks with a high risk of developing skin spot.Although the skin spot pathogen may be...

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R293 Matching Blight Fungicides to Cultivar Resistance

Aim: To demonstrate the effectiveness of fungicide control on cultivars with a wide range of foliar blight resistance ratings, and to meet the requirements of the EU Thematic Strategy on the...

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R291 PMTV Screening

Aim: To determine if field trials, using PMTV-free tubers planted into naturally infested field soils, can be used to provide reliable information on variety susceptibility to PMTV.At present, only...

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