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The seed potato trade could be facing a disease epidemic
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The seed potato trade could be facing a disease epidemic

Good progress is being made towards the development of tools to help potato growers tackle a potato cyst nematode (PCN) epidemic which is threatening the future of the British potato sector. Speaking...

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