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Overcoming Detrimental Potato Fungi With The Secondary Metabolites Of Naturally Occurring Streptomyces In A Greenhouse, Hansan Jones, Jacob Anderson, Erik Kemp, Brad Geary, Matthew Madsen, Ryan Stewart
Overcoming Detrimental Potato Fungi With The Secondary Metabolites Of Naturally Occurring Streptomyces In A Greenhouse, Hansan Jones, Jacob Anderson, Erik Kemp, Brad Geary, Matthew Madsen, Ryan Stewart
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- Fungal disease Silver scurf can cause 13% water loss and give poor aesthetic appeal, both of which reduce farmers profits (1,2).
- Pythium leak can result in up to 50% total loss of potatoes in storage (3).
- Streptomyces is the right candidate to mitigate or eliminate these losses because of its ability to survive in soil (4) and its history as a proven biocontrol for other plant pathogens (5).