New Focus on Potato webcast: Early Blight, a Global Management Issue on potatoes

"Focus on Potato"of the Plant Management Network has published a new webcast:

Early Blight: A Global Management Issue on Potatoes

By Walter R. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin Managing early blight requires the careful integration of cultural and chemical methods, including rotation, choice of cultivar, plant nutrition and fungicide application.

Focus on Potato's latest webcast by Walter Stevenson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, is meant to help consultants, growers and practitioners diagnose and manage early blight of potato in the field and in storage.

This presentation will aid consultants, growers and practitioners understand how to identify and manage early blight of potato in the field and storage.

Key symptoms are described that help to differentiate this disease from other common diseases.

Important details of the pathogen, host and disease cycle are discussed.

Managing early blight in the field requires the careful integration of cultural and chemical methods including rotation, choice of cultivar, plant nutrition and fungicide application.

Understanding how these elements play a role in managing early blight helps to reduce losses in yield and tuber quality as well as reducing the reliance on weekly application of fungicides.   This webcast can be accessed without subscription until May 31, 2011