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Tuber Diseases
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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SASA has a wide range of expertise in fungal disease diagnosis and epidemiology and has considerable experience in development work on a range of diseases.
Services include:
- scientific and technical advice to SEERAD
- diagnosis of suspect samples submitted by SEERAD potato inspectors
- monitoring of health of Scottish seed potato stocks |
Development activities cover a wide range of diseases. For example, past studies have identified the store as a source of contamination for healthy stocks by a number of pathogens; spread of gangrene fungus in aerosols generated by rain; effectiveness of various fungicides controlling tuber rots and blemish diseases; detection of fungicide resistant strains; survival of potato pathogens in field soils, development of test methods to recover tuber pathogens from soil and characterisation of late blight populations in Scotland.
This work has involved a range of collaborators: IACR Rothamsted, Scottish Crop Research Institute, ADAS Consulting Ltd.
Most recent publications are:
Choiseul J. W. & Carnegie S. F. (2000). First report of Botryotinia fuckeliana causing soft rots in potato in Scotland. Plant Disease 84, 806.
Cooke D.E.L, Maughan V., Birch P.R.J., Toth R., Gourlay F., Carnegie S. F. & Duncan J. M. (2000). The status of Scottish late blight populations. In Scottish Crop Research Institute Annual Report 1999/2000. Dundee: SCRI, pp 150-153.
Choiseul J. W., Allen L. & Carnegie S. F. (2001). The role of stem inoculum in the transmission of Fusarium sulphureum to potato tubers. Potato Research 44, 165-172
Carnegie S. F., Cameron A. M. & Haddon P. (2001). The effect of time of haulm destruction and harvest on the development of dry rot caused by Fusarium solani var. coeruleum. Annals of Applied Biology 139, 209-216.
Carnegie S. F., Choiseul, J. W. & Roberts A. M. I. (2002) Detection of Colletotrichum coccodes and Helminthosporium solani in soil by biassay. Plant Pathology (submitted). |
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