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Seed Certification as a Virus Management Tool

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Virus and Virus-like Diseases of Potatoes and Production of Seed-Potatoes

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Vegetative or clonal propagation of the potato plant enables tuber borne pathogens to persist from one growing season to the next. Systemic pathogens such as viruses are especially likely to be present in tubers held back for seed. The so-called “running out” or declining productivity of seed tubers that was described over one hundred years ago was eventually found to result from the presence of one or several viruses. Potato seed improvement programs reversed the trend of declining seed productivity and are examples of our earliest attempts at virus management in the seed tuber crop, even before the nature of infectious viruses was known or understood.

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  1. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Wyoming, P. O. Box 3354, Laramie, WY, 82071-3354, USA

    Gary D. Franc

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  1. Department of Virology, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, 50-250, Israel

    Gad Loebenstein

  2. Department of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, 83844-2339, ID, USA

    Philip H. Berger

  3. Horticulture Research International, Wellesbourne, Warwiks, CV35 9EF, UK

    Alan A. Brunt

  4. National Program Staff, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, 20705-5137, MD, USA

    Roger H. Lawson

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Franc, G.D. (2001). Seed Certification as a Virus Management Tool. In: Loebenstein, G., Berger, P.H., Brunt, A.A., Lawson, R.H. (eds) Virus and Virus-like Diseases of Potatoes and Production of Seed-Potatoes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0842-6_30

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