What could be better than a nice SANET query to distract me from the
business on my desk on a gloomy Dia de Los Muertos afternoon??? :^)
Here are URLs on sweet potato disease; all are oriented toward
chemical control:
Texas A&M
http://cygnus.tamu.edu/Texlab/Vegetables/Sweetpotato/spottop.html
There is a pictorial disease index, plus discussions of different
diseases, and the resistances of different varieties to them.
Kevin Smyth described a diseased root on his desk: "It looks like the
moon, all pitted and scarred with deep furrows and ridges." Kevin,
see if the above URL doesn't help; the index shows several photos of
diseased sweet potatoes, and the one corresponding to soil rot,
caused by the bacterium /Streptomyces ipomoea/, looks rather lunar,
if you're talking about one of the bent, ugly little red moons of
Mars rather than our own lovely silver Luna.
If you want to see a big-ag perspective, check out this FINTRAC
page:
http://www.fintrac.com/gain/guides/ph/postsweet.html
on post-harvest handling.
UIUC's IPM page on sweet potatoes is rather sparse:
http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/~ipm/fruits/spotato/spotato.html
I searched Alta Vista on "sweet potato disease" and got only 7 hits;
the other 4 didn't seem very pertinent. Perhaps other search engines
or syntax might yield other findings.
peace
misha
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