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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 82, Issue 3, Pages 583-586Publisher
AGRICULTURAL INST CANADA
DOI: 10.4141/P01-046
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common scab; Streptomyces scabies; Solanum tuberosum; liming
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The influence of soil pH on yields and grade-out due to tuber damage by common scab (Streptomyces scabies) was evaluated over multiple cropping seasons for potato (Solanum tuberosum) grown on land heavily infested with S. scabies. Soils with a native pH of 8.0 were adjusted to pH 7.0 to 9.0 using elemental sulfur as an acidulant and calcitic lime as the liming agent. There was little change in total tuber yields over this pH range, but the incidence and severity of scab lesions declined as the pH increased above 8.5. Marketable yields after grade-out to scab were highest at pH 9.0. This study demonstrates that in alkaline soils losses due to potato common scab may be managed by adjusting the soil pH to a point unfavorable to the scab organism. The economics of this type of pH change and its impact on subsequent crops need to be considered.
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