Prevention and Control Technology of Potato Soil-borne Diseases

In recent years, potato soil-borne diseases have occurred severely. The investigation shows that potato Fusarium wilt greatly affects potato yield, leading to a yield reduction rate of 21.8%. Potato powdery scab shows very mild symptoms on potato tuber, basically with no symptoms in some plots, but shows obvious symptoms on the root system. A large number of nodules which are produced on one side of the root system seriously affect the water and fertilizer absorption function of the potato root system. Potato tubers expand slowly, leading to small potato tuber, low yield and low commodity rate. The fungus can survive in soil for more than 10 years. Potato soil-borne diseases are harmful and are difficult to control. Susceptible plants can be detected by high definition chromatographic control method and pathogen detection. For prevention and control of potato soil-borne diseases, first of all, disease-resistant varieties should be chosen and virus-free potato seeds are used for sowing. Secondly, metham and dazomet can be used to treat soil in order to prevent and control potato soil-borne diseases. The results showed that the dead seedling rate treated by metham was reduced from 35% to 12.5% compared with the blank control, and the yield was increased by 44.09 kg/ha, with an increase rate of 18.2%. Compared with the blank control, the dead seedling rate treated by dazomet was decreased from 35% to 7.5%, and the yield was increased by 38.10 kg/ha, with an increase rate of 15.7%. The soil treatment received obvious yield increase effect.