Official release of PCN Action Scotland’s decision support system for PCN management скачать в хорошем качестве

Official release of PCN Action Scotland’s decision support system for PCN management

Potato cyst nematodes (PCN) have been spreading across many potato growing areas for decades and are currently the largest pathogenic threat to the UK potato sector. Scotland provides almost 80% of the seed potatoes grown across the UK. Legislation in Scotland prevents these seed potatoes from being grown on land where PCN have been detected to prevent further PCN infections occurring. However, the pathogen continues to spread, reducing the amount of PCN-free seed land available and unmanageably impacting yields in ware crops across the UK Following a report in 2020, a Scottish Government-funded PCN working group was initiated under the management of Scotland’s Plant Health Centre. This group, PCN Action Scotland, consisting of over 50 government, academic and industry partners are collectively working across 9 key work packages. In addition to core research, the group has proposed new policy changes, created new tools to help growers and breeders with PCN management and recommended incentives for improved PCN management to SASA. PCN Action Scotland is currently in its final year, and this presentation will mark the official public release of project’s newly developed decision support system to assist PCN management. There will be an opportunity to see a live demonstration of the model’s free version. Speaker: Dr James A. Price, The James Hutton Institute