Potato wart or potato canker – Synchytrium endobioticum
Potato wart disease is caused by a soil-borne fungus, Synchytrium endobioticum, that attacks the growing points on the potato plant, such as eyes, buds and stolon tips. The fungus can remain dormant in the soil for several years or more as resting spores.
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Notices to industry
Policy Directives
- D-08-04: Plant protection import requirements for plants and plant parts for planting
- D-01-02: Import requirements for packages of flower bulbs purchased in the Netherlands by travellers returning to or visiting Canada
- D-98-01: Import Requirements for seed potatoes and other potato propagative material
- D-96-05: Phytosanitary requirements for the importation and domestic movement of non-propagative potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) and related potato articles, including associated soil
- D-95-26: Phytosanitary requirements for soil and soil-related matter, and for items contaminated with soil and soil-related matter
- D-94-26: Phytosanitary import requirements for root crops (other than potato), mushrooms, and vegetables with attached roots for consumption or processing
- D-94-25: Plant Protection Import Requirements for Ginseng (Panax spp.)
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