Dit afstudeeronderzoek gaat over het verminderen van het gebruik van gewasbeschermingsmiddelen in aardappelrassen met een resistentie tegen phytophthora. Het onderzoek is geschreven voor telers van resistente aardappelrassen en andere handelshuizen. In dit onderzoek zijn gedachtes en meningen van telers …

Potato, came from south America long time ago, the tuber is grow about everywhere in the world to become the fourth worldwide crop. Its worst enemy is an oomycete, the Phytophtora infestans. This disease is responsible for millions of deaths and forced migration in Ireland during the Great Famine from …

Within the framework of Agrobiokon an internet application was developed allowing potato growers a simple evaluation of their potato late blight control strategy. The goal of developing this application was to confront the perception of growers regarding the protection level of their crops with an independent …

The objective of this study is to apply a potato model for the Andean Ecoregion and extend this model with Late Blight epidemiology and fungicide spray scheduling in order to evaluate effects (trade-offs) of fungicide applications on potato yield.