late blight
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflateandblight
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late
adjective
adverb
uk/leɪt/us/leɪt/
(happening or being) near the end of a period ...
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blight
noun
uk/blaɪt/us/blaɪt/
a disease that damages and ...
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(Definition oflateandblightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Farmers were prepared to accept somelateblightin tubers if other characteristics were favourable.
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Quantifying effects of general resistance and fungicide for management of potatolateblight.
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No attempt was made to controllateblightwith fungicides since yield stability underlateblightpressure was the subject of investigation.
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The variation in tuber yield could be attributed in part tolateblightseverity.
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Many commercial varieties are susceptible tolateblightand must be sprayed regularly with fungicides.
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Screening forlateblightsusceptibility in potato tubers by digital analysis of cut tuber surfaces.
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A standard set of genotypes with a range of known and stable responses tolateblightcan be a very useful tool in this selection process.
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Inheritance of resistance tolateblight.
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The selection of superior genotypes with stable resistance and good adaptation to a wide range of environments is the main goal of potatolateblightbreeding programmes.
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Potato breeding for resistance tolateblightand virus disease during the last u hundred years.
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The variation in yield may be due to the differences in genotype response and resistance tolateblight, a significant disease constraint on potato in this region.
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It is a long white-skinned cultivar with both foliar and tuber resistance tolateblight.
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The proximate cause was famine resulting from a potato disease commonly known aslateblight.
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Polycyclic epidemics such as potatolateblightare usually best modelled by using the logistic model, whereas monocyclic epidemics may be best modelled using the monomolecular model.
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