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The EuroBlight monitoring team has published its first set of results for the 2025 potato season.
Scientists from The James Hutton Institute will be at British Potato, the potato industry’s premier event, on 19-20th November.
Potatoes in Practice (PiP), Scotland’s largest field-based potato event, will take place on Thursday 7th August 2025 at The James Hutton Institute’s Balruddery Farm in Invergowrie, near Dundee.
The project that aims to determine how pathogens cause crop diseases such as potato blight, was awarded £5.91 million from UKRI, for the five year study that will start early next year.
Professor Ian Toth has been appointed as President of the European Association for Potato Research (EAPR), in recognition of his 35 years of pioneering potato research.
The future of potato crop production will be a hot topic at Potatoes in Practice (PiP), the UK’s largest field-based potato event on Thursday 8 August in Dundee.
In the 18th century, James Hutton, a leader in the Scottish Enlightenment movement, was one of the first to observe and write about potatoes being grown in Scotland. Many people were suspicious of the crop, as some of the early tubers were “fingerlike and black” – a symptom of leprosy.
The James Hutton Institute will continue in its role to help protect Britain’s potato crop against late blight after further funding was secured.
Tatties, taters, spuds – whatever you call potatoes probably reflects your cultural and geographical background. Since first introduced to the world from South America, they have lifted millions of our predecessors out of food poverty and fuelled the industrial revolution.
