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Prospects for improving potato crop protection against aphid vectors

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Conventional ways to control aphid vectors on potato crops rely essentially on cultural and chemical methods. The extensive use of insecticides, too often applied regardless of real needs and consequences, has resulted in more and more failures in both controlling aphids and virus spread. This paper stresses the need to introduce more rationale in the operation of existing methods by improving the efficiency of some of them like forecasting systems, to assess the potential of others like fertilization and semiochemicals and to put most efforts on resistant cultivars so that integrated pest management can be operated in the near future.

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Robert, Y. Prospects for improving potato crop protection against aphid vectors. Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology 98 (Suppl 2), 37–45 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01974470

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