Potato disease research will help San Luis Valley farmers
Jayme DeLoss
Potato dry rot leads to significant losses during storage and postharvest handling, making management of this disease critically important for potato farmers. Colorado State University researchers in the San Luis Valley – one of the top regions for potato production in the U.S. – have identified multiple fungal species causing dry rot in Colorado.
By analyzing structural and molecular features, plant pathologists at CSU’s San Luis Valley Research Center identified four Fusarium species...