Sentence examples for potato disease from inspiring English sources
Recently, when a potato disease ravaged Kenya, farmer Zack Matere searched "potato disease" on the internet and discovered that ants were eating his potato stems.
The potato disease in 1845, bringing with it the certainty of widespread famine in Ireland, completed the breach.
On the same website, Matere found that the cure for his potato disease was to sprinkle wood ash on the crop.
A serious potato disease destroyed almost all the potatoes of the Irish and caused a great famine in 1845-1846.
As to date, potato production is significantly plagued by late blight which is the most devastating potato disease worldwide.
"Yields are often reduced when genes are introduced," cautions Jim Davis, retired potato disease specialist from the University of Idaho, Aberdeen.
Biosave (Pseudomonas syringae Van Hall) used for the control of pome fruit, sweet potato, and potato diseases [ 3], and "Shemer" (Metschnikowia fructicola)[ 4] used commercially for the control of sweet potato and carrot storage diseases [ 4], strawberry [ 5], apple [ 6] and citrus fruit [ 7].
In Europe, potato yield per hectare differs largely from country to country due to the climate, national agricultural policy, differences in the manner of potato cultivation and also because of the presence of potato diseases affecting plant growth and tubers in storage (Czajkowski et al. 2012).
This is to control and reduce the risk of potato diseases and viruses.
Antagonistic effects of T. flavus isolates against Verticillium albo-atrum, the causal agent of potato wilt disease were investigated in the laboratory and greenhouse conditions.
A similar effect on 24-nt sRNAs concentration occurs in the synergistic sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) [ 61].
