Webinar: Diseases Threatening Sustainable Potato Production

Jacquie van der WaalsJacquie van der Waals

The World Potato Congress (WPC) has a webinar set for Nov. 12 at 9:00 a.m. ET.

Professor Jacquie van der Waals from the University of Pretoria, South Africa will present Above and Below Ground: Diseases threatening sustainable potato production.

The webinar will discuss three important disease complexes in potatoes, namely Rhizoctoniasis, soft rot and blackleg, early blight and brown spot. For each of these disease complexes, Prof. van der Waals will introduce the pathogen, give a description of symptoms, discuss the disease cycle and touch on basic management principles.

Webinar Registration
The host for this webinar will be WPC Director, Dr. Nora Olsen (norao@uidaho.edu).

To register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P6epvMjNT66901IMuTjIWw

All previous WPC webinars can be found at www.potatocongress.org.