More than 100 people attended May’s EuroBlight workshop in Switzerland, either physically or virtually. EuroBlight, the potato late blight network for Europe, has also released details of its 2021 sampling campaign, which saw the collection and genotyping of almost 2,500 samples from 26 countries.
The overall objective of the EuroBlight workshop was “to present and discuss recent results on integrated control of late blight (Phytophthora infestans ) and early blight (Alternaria spp.).”
To achieve this, sessions were devoted to the importance and characteristics of late and early pathogens, the status in Europe and beyond (including updates from the Asian and Latin American monitoring networks), epidemiology and host resistance, and control strategies (including an update on precision agriculture in potato cropping, a systems approach for early warning and control in Denmark and intercropping as a sustainable alternative to reduce late blight infection in potato).
In addition, separate subgroup discussions were held. These were dedicated to control strategies, pathogen characteristics and host resistance, and Alternaria . Most of the presentations are now available online from the EuroBlight website (see link below).
The results of EuroBlight’s potato late blight monitoring in 2021 are also available on its website. Almost 2,500 samples from 26 countries were genotyped last year, bringing the total of samples to around 15,000 since the programme was launched in 2013.
It reports the key findings:
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