A day in the life at the University of Pretoria. 20 June 2021

On this "Day in the life of the University of Pretoria" Tukkie researchers reported on the success of using specific trap crops in potato crop rotation.

Staff members in UP’s , Potato Pathology in the Faculty of Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology had determined in this greenhouse trials that oat and soybean reduced the parasite Spongospora  Subterranean sp. that causes a powdery scab on the potato. Professor Jacquie van der Waal explained that the research found that this  parasite could contained the parasite by using this in rotation with potatoes.  

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