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Potato Council Best Practice advice
on potato late blight control
 
Fight Against Blight 1 - Potato outgrade hygiene  Revised 2009
Fight Against Blight 2 - Seed health  Revised 2009
Fight Against Blight 3 - Planting  Revised 2009
Fight Against Blight 4 - Volunteer control  Revised 2009
Fight Against Blight 5 - Blight on the Potato Council website  Revised 2009
Fight Against Blight 6 - Spray application technique
Fight Against Blight 7 - Spray programme (2004)
Fight Against Blight 8 - Responding to a crop infection  Revised 2009
Fight Against Blight 9 - Irrigation
Fight Against Blight 10 - Haulm destruction
Fight Against Blight 11 - Harvest
Fight Against Blight 12 - Store loading  Revised 2009
Fight Against Blight 13 - Storage  Revised 2009
Fight Against Blight - Advice for growers of organic crops
Fight Against Blight - Oospore Outbreaks  Revised 2009

In-depth information and research on potato late blight
Apparent changes in varietal resistance to potato late blight
– interim statement (April 2009)
Understanding Blight Populations:  Step by Step Guide
(November 2007)
Fungicide Resistance Action Group UK (FRAG-UK) – Potato late blight: Guidelines for managing fungicide resistance Revised 2009
BPC Blight Forum 2007 – notes and presentations
Blight Decision Support Systems – Stakeholder Meeting notes (September 2006)
BPC Research Review –
 Variation in aggressiveness in Phytophthora infestans
Independent Blight Fungicide Trials
 Summary – years 2003 to 2005
Comparative efficacy of available and new active ingredients in Great Britain – (Project Report No.2006/4)
Variation in Phytophthora infestans: determination of mating types and pathogenicity – (Project Report No.2006/3)
Blight Fungicide Application Technology survey and spray coverage demonstrations 2004  (Ruairidh Bain, SAC)

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