Potato wart disease

Fecha de publicación

Lun, 16 Jul 2007, 00:00

Última actualización

Jul. 15, 2007, 9:01 a.m.

Número del informe

TUR-02/2

País

Republic of Türkiye

Plaga identificada

Synchytrium endobioticum - (SYNCEN)

Estado del informe

Final

Hospederos

Solanum tuberosum- ware potato (for consumption)

Pest Status (old values from ISPM 8 -1998 )

• Present: only in some areas

Pest Status (ISPM 8 - 2021)

• Present: not widely distributed and under official control

Distribución geográfica

Disease was determined to occur in Nev?ehir (in 169 fields), Ni?de (in 68 fields), Kayseri (in 1 field)provinces of Central Anatolia Region and Ordu (in 8 fields), Trabzon (in 5 fields)in Black Sea Region.

Resumen

Potato (Solanum tuberosum) Wart Disease was detected firstly on potato tubers in Aybast? (Ordu province in Black Sea Region), a non economically important potato growing district, during October 2003. The disease was also found in two of the commercially potato growing provinces of central Anatolia, Ni?de and Nev?ehir in the same year. The potato varieties Agria, Donella, Granola, Marfona and Russet Burbank grown in Ni?de and Nev?ehir provinces were affected from the disease in very low percentages, not exceeding 1% of the total plants. The Ministry of Agriculture has been employing the EU (1969) Council Directive 69/464 of 8 December 1969 on control of Potato Wart Disease. Disease surveys for this pathogen in country are kept on as routine surveys for every year.

Peligro

First finding of potato wart in potatoes was in 2003. The organism was detected in same field later than in ware potato of commercial fields. The disease has been under the official control since its first detection.

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