Disease Defense: Potatoes and Powdery Scab
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March 30, 2018

Disease Defense: Potatoes and Powdery Scab

The powdery scab caused by the primitive organism Spongospora subterranea f.sp. subterranea can be devastating to a potato crop when conditions are right. Even when conditions are wrong, its spores remain in the soil until the right moisture, temperature and potato host are present. This

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