My potatoes were tortured by late blight. I do not want to process - there is no desire to water my garden with poisons. Maybe there are resistant varieties?
Kristina A., Kostroma
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Answers Head of the Department of Potato Genetic Resources, All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources. N.I. Vavilova, Doctor of Biol. Sci. Stepan Kiru:
- The answer is ambiguous. The fact is that the causative agent of late blight has many races. There are no varieties that can be resistant to several races at the same time, and even more so to all. However, there are varieties that are highly resistant to this disease. However, in different years in some of them the resistance "sags" due to a change in the race of the pathogen. It is possible to note the varieties, whose resistance is relatively stable. Among them there are Russian ones - Aurora, Aspia, Inspiration, Golubizna, Irbitsky, Lukyanovsky, Naiad, Nevsky, Nikulinsky, Radonezhsky, Rozhdestvensky, Rossiyanka, Ryabinushka, Sarovsky, Madam, Good luck, Charodey, Yuna. In this category there are Belarusian varieties - Atlant, Alpinist, Belorussky early, Vihola, Zarnitsa, Zdabytak, Zhuravinka, Lazurit, Naroch, Orbita, Suzor'e, Temp - and Ukrainian: Zarevo, Lugovskoy, Lybid, Svitanok Kievsky.
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