...lination needs to be speeded-up. Finally, Flemish hop growers are also requesting to start up local propagation of hop plants in Flanders so as not to be dependent on foreign propagators.Releva...
...d virus-free status wins the market. Absolute virus-free status is increasingly becoming a must for propagation material and their end products. For example, the testing requirements in the interna...
...pproachAs a test object, we choose various crops that are important within the EU for breeding, propagation, food and feed production. We identify the crop characteristics and bioindicators lin...
...y. Research approachILVO's work package is limited to the study and development of in vitro propagation techniques that can lead to good results, and to the screening of starting material f...
...ductory routes). In a next phase, the status of the viruses and nematodes that were associated with propagation materials, in the field and in the marketed new (tuber) crops was evaluated. Finally,...
...er 2011, the Diagnostic Centre for Plants (DCP) was asked to investigate the cause of leaf spots on propagation material from different cultivars of snowball hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens). Clea...
...lated non quarantine pathogens) list for grape, strawberry, blueberry, potato and for plant and propagation materials. Fiches of these RNQP organisms are available on the Department of Agriculture ...
...tally ended up in waterways in which "bittersweet" (Solanum dulcamara) was the ideal host plant for propagation and survival of the bacteria. Brown rot infections subsequently arose from irrigation...