Date: Monday, 13th November
Time: 7pm - 9pm, followed by refreshments
Location: Bungaree Public Recreation Reserve, Bungaree-Wallace Rd, Bungaree VIC 3352
Registration: Click here to register (Registration is essential for catering)

Join the PotatoLink team for an in-person interactive workshop with international guest, Dr Phillip Wharton, Associate Professor of Potato Pathology at the University of Idaho, USA and Dr Nigel Crump, General Manager for the Australian Seed Potato Authority (AuSPICA), Deputy Chair of the UN Economic Commission specialised seed potatoes section and a Director of the World Potato Congress Inc. Dr Crump has extensive of experience in potato pathology

Topics covered in the workshop:

1. An introduction to PotatoLink

2. Dr Phillip Wharton

   • Late Blight control and management

   • Blackleg and other bacterial diseases causing soft rot, stem rot and ring rot

   • Black Dot and early death complex research

   • Rhizoctonia control in the field and store

   • Post-harvest tuber disease control

3. Dr Nigel Crump

   • Update on Potato virus Y (PVY), blackleg and
     Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid (PSTVd) in Australia

   • About the upcoming World Potato Congress (WPC)

You will leave the workshop with:

• A deeper understanding of key disease challenges

• Importance and impact of effective disease management

• Disease identification skills

• Practical strategies that can be applied on your farm

• Tools available for disease testing and available resources

What you need to bring:

• Pen and paper

• Your questions

If you have any questions or queries, please contact Nigel on nigel@potatolink.com.au or 0408 592 051.

Meet the presenters:

• Dr Phillip Wharton

  Dr. Phillip Wharton is currently Associate Professor of potato pathology at the University of Idaho (USA). The University of Idaho is a key hub in US potato research with Idaho producing in 2016, 6.3 million tonnes ($USD 968 million), making up approximately 30% of US’s potato crop.

  In addition to Dr. Wharton’s extensive research experience at Purdue University (USA) and Michigan State University (USA), since 2004 Dr. Wharton has focused his efforts on diseases of potatoes including Rhizoctonia, Fusarium dry rot, late blight and other diseases of potatoes. He has also worked on international potato projects including helping Idaho potato growers increase their exports to Asia (Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia etc.) and developing late blight resistant potatoes in Indonesia and Bangladesh. Dr. Wharton’s areas of specialisation include plant pathology, disease forecasting, fungicide resistance, plant disease resistance and the biology of host-pathogens interactions of fungal diseases on potatoes. He has published several papers, which you can read here: https://tinyurl.com/58j2u4xe

• Dr Nigel Crump

  Dr Nigel Crump is the General Manager for the Australian Seed Potato Authority (AuSPICA), Deputy Chair of the UN Economic Commission specialised seed potatoes section and a Director of the World Potato Congress Inc. Dr Crump has extensive experience in potato pathology.