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A Dickeya solani-free year for Scottish potato growers
The 2011-12 post-harvest tuber survey for Dickeya solani in the Scottish potato crop has found no signs of infection
15 May 2012Source: Farmers Weekly Interactive
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Scientific Opinion on the annual Post-Market Environmental Monitoring (PMEM) report from BASF on the cultivation of genetically modified potato in 2010
Following a request from the European Commission, the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA GMO Panel) assessed the monitoring report for the 2010 cultivation season of GM potato EH92-527-1 (variety Amflora) provided by BASF. See link below
29 February 2012Source: European Food Safety Authority
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Potato industry reaps benefits of new computer vision technology
A prototype computer vision system to identify sub-standard potatoes will be presented by computer scientists from the University of Lincoln at the triennial conference 'Crop Protection in Northern Britain’, taking place in Dundee this week. Post-graduate students from the Centre for Vision and Robotics Research played a major role in the project with Michael Barnes (PhD student) undertaking...
28 February 2012Source: University of Lincoln