Badger Beat Potato Silver Scurf Management The fungus can infect developing plant parts (roots and stolons) and ultimately daughter tubers By Dr. Amanda Gevens and Sofía Macchiavelli Giron, University of WisconsinMadison Plant Pathology
I contribute this article
to the Badger Common’Tater with a special note about its co-author, now Dr. Sofía Macchiavelli Giron. Sofía recently successfully defended her doctoral dissertation working with me at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Plant Pathology. A summary of some of her results is provided in this article. Many Wisconsin potato growers interacted with Sofía and appreciated her updates on silver scurf and its
management at our annual meetings. Further, she was honored, in 2019, with the National Potato Council Scholarship, which enhanced her disease research efforts. I thank our growers and the industry for these collaborative and supportive opportunities for students that help us grow the next generation of agricultural scientists while addressing current crop challenges! Potatoes are the world’s fourthlargest food crop, following rice, wheat and maize. Wisconsin currently
Representative symptoms of silver scurf are shown on a potato tuber.
ranks third in potato production in the United States and has been experiencing increased blemish disease incidence and severity since approximately 2000, with a marked impact on quality of fresh market varieties. continued on pg. 48
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