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Correlation between intercepted radiation and yield of potato crops infested by Phytophthora infestans in central Africa

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It became apparent from chemical late blight control data on large numbers of genotypes of the Rwandese late blight screening programme, that yields were linearly related to the amount of intercepted radiation by the crop. Measures which affected the total amount of intercepted radiation such as the use of contact and systematic fungicides, or of different genotypes, did not affect the radiation use efficiency of the canopy. Genotypes that started to tuberize at relatively low values of intercepted radiation partly escaped the effect of late blight infection of the foliage on tuber yields. This characteristic could be useful to identify early late blightresistant genotypes for central Africa, where farmers grow two crops per year and earliness is required.

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De chemische bestrijding van de aardappelziekte in grote aantallen genotypen van het Rwandese veredelingsprogramma voor aardappelziekteresistentie heeft aangetoond dat opbrengsten zich lineair verhouden tot de hoeveelheid door het gewas opgevangen zonnestraling. Maatregelen die van invloed waren op de totale hoeveelheid opgevangen straling, zoals het gebruik van contact- of systemische schimmelbestrijdingsmiddelen, of van verschillende genotypen, waren niet van invloed op het rendement van het gebruik van zonnestraling door het blad. Genotypen die een knolaanleg vertoonden bij verhoudingsgewijze lage waarden van opgevangen straling, ontsnapten gedeeltelijk aan het effect van bladaantasting op knolopbrengst. Dit kenmerk zou van nut kunnen zijn om vroege genotypen te zoeken met resistentie tegen de aardappelziekte in centraal Afrika, waar vroegheid van belang is omdat boeren twee gewassen per jaar telen.

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Haverkort, A.J., Bicamumpaka, M. Correlation between intercepted radiation and yield of potato crops infested by Phytophthora infestans in central Africa. Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology 92, 239–247 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01977690

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