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Aim: To provide a better understanding of the epidemiology of powdery scab and to evaluate the effectiveness of a range of chemical, biological and cultural treatments.This project, which was jointly...
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Aim: To understand the factors that affect PCN decline rates between potato crops, and to evaluate the potential for the development of a biological control agent for PCN.Much of the previous...
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Aim: To provide tools for the sustainable management of wireworms, including novel control options that can be used independently, or be integrated with pesticide use.Industry ChallengeThe incidence...
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Aim: To monitor the occurrence of the A2 late blight mating type in GB.This project builds on previous work that monitored the occurrence of the A2 mating type in GB. The work...
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Aim: To investigate the effect of irrigation and level of Erwinia carotovora seed tuber contamination on physiological aging, seed decay, emergence, graded yield, blackleg and pathogen spread.The...
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Aim: To improve the understanding of PMTV in terms of:transmission rate, disease development, yield and quality and the role of the powdery scab fungus (Spongospora subterranea) in infection.PMTV has...
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Aim: To provide growers with a risk assessment tool for disease development caused by soil-borne R. solani AG3 from which control strategies can be decided.Black scurf is a blemish disease of potato...
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Aim: To understand aspects of the biology of the black dot pathogen, Colletotrichum coccodes, so that control measures can be effectively and practically integratedThe first three years of this...
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Aim: To examine the potential to develop a rapid assay for the presence of TRV using a sensitive PCR-based method applied to the roots of weeds or crop plants.Existing methods of predicting the...
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Aim: To evaluate the most practical sustainable farming techniques and quantifying their impact on the environment, including insect and plant diversity and habitat requirements of farmland birds.The...
