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Blackleg and tuber soft rot caused by soft rot Pectobacteriaceae (SRP) are among the most important diseases of potato both for seed and ware potato production. SRP may affect the potato economy in many ways: by affecting the yield at harvest, by inducing soft rot on tubers, or by generating losses and additional expenses during the certification process of seed potatoes. The economic impact of SRP for the entire potato production scheme has not previously been estimated. This chapter provides estimations of the losses due to SRP in a Swiss case study, as well as an extrapolation of these estimations to the entire European potato production system. The overall loss for the European potato sector each year is estimated at 46 M euro, with high variability among years. The seed potato sector accounts for 32% of the losses, the table potato sector for 43%, and the processing potato sector for 25% of the losses. The impact per hectare is the highest for the seed potato sector with 2.5-fold more losses than for the table potato sector, while the processing potato sector is 2.9-fold less affected than the latter.
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The authors thank Peter Frei (Agroscope, Nyon, Switzerland) for making available the data of the Swiss seed potato certification system. We also thank Christine Heller (Swisspatat, Bern, Switzerland), Christof Rüfenacht (Swisssem, Delley-Portalban, Switzerland), as well as Bruno Arnold and Hansruedi Schoch (Agridea, Lindau, Switzerland) for providing economic data of the Swiss ware and seed potato sectors. We also thank Fabien Curty (Fenaco, Bern, Switzerland), Emilien Piot (Fenaco, Bercher, Switzerland), Adrian Krähenbühl (SEMAG, Lyssach, Switzerland), and Oswald Perler (SGD, Düdingen, Switzerland) for kindly providing a feedback to our data surveys. We thank the delegates of the group “standard for seed potatoes” of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) who kindly answered to the questions of our survey regarding the prevalence of the SRP’s in their national seed potato certification schemes.
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Dupuis, B., Nkuriyingoma, P., Van Gijsegem, F. (2021). Economic Impact of Pectobacterium and Dickeya Species on Potato Crops: A Review and Case Study. In: Van Gijsegem, F., van der Wolf, J.M., Toth, I.K. (eds) Plant Diseases Caused by Dickeya and Pectobacterium Species. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61459-1_8
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