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R459 Improving Cultivation Practices in Potatoes
Aim: To improve cultivation practices in potatoes to increase soil structural stability, lengthen the window of cultivatability, improve soil N use efficiency, reduce wastage and energy...
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R458 Warmer Cold Storage
Aim: To understand the potential to increase the temperature at which potatoes for the fresh market are stored.Industry ChallengeStorage of potatoes for the fresh market is carried out at low...
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R457 Seed Pathology and Storage
Aim: To increase seed tuber health through improved management in store of diseases including Phoma, Fusarium and Helminthosporium species.Industry ChallengeThere are numerous pathogens which damage...
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R456 Blackheart
Aim: To determine the main risk factors of blackheart in order to allow improved management of crops and to minimise blackheart incidence.Industry ChallengeBlackheart is a physiological disorder...
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R454 'Dickeya solani' Survey
Aim: To provide valuable information on the extent and geographical distribution of D. 'solani' infections as well as provide information to estimate the losses due to D. 'solani' in comparison with...
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R453 Haulm Destruction in Seed Crops
Aim: To identify the impact of haulm destruction method on disease risks in seed potato production, and follows up on project R431.Industry ChallengeSince the withdrawal of sulphuric acid as an...
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R452 Soil Workability and Structural Stability
Aim: To improve cultivation practices in potatoes to increase soil structural stability and lengthen the window of workability, and to develop the findings of project R406. This will initially be a...
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R451 Phosphorus Use (LINK)
Aim: To develop profitable and sustainable farming systems that maximise the efficiency of utilisation of soil and applied phosphorus by arable crops and minimise negative impacts on the wider...
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R449 Effectiveness of Mineral Oils
Aim: To investigate integration of the use of oils for the control of non-persistent viruses in seed crops in GB, where growing crop inspection is the standard method of seed certification.Industry...
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R444 Managing Cultivations and Cover Crops
Industry ChallengeResearch on potato systems shows that deep compaction caused during ground preparation before planting and shallow compaction caused by repeated traffic for spraying and irrigation...