Project report from a collaborative EU project which aimed to develop a ‘systems approach’ for the management of late blight, allowing commercially viable production of organic potato crops without recourse to copper fungicides.
The focus of ORC’s contribution to Blight MOP was the development of appropriate diversification strategies; this means understanding the ecological and epidemiological consequences of growing more than one variety or even species (e.g. potatoes and wheat) in the same field at the same time.