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Article: A Unique Potato Virus Collection.(Brief Article)
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- Agricultural Research
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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If a plant pathologist, breeder, geneticist, or grower discovered an unusual viral disease in a potato crop, where could that person go to identify the culprit?
One good place to check would be the Agricultural Research Service's Schultz Potato Virus Collection, named after ARS plant pathologist Erwin S. Schultz. He and plant pathologist Donald Folsom, with the Maine Agriculture Experiment Station, started this collection in 1916 at Aroostook State Farm at Presque Isle, Maine.
Researchers throughout the world have compared their infected potato plants with those maintained in the Schultz collection. Even now--after more than 80 years--the collection ...