# The Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016, Regulation 3: Interpretation: diseases and pests


In these Regulations—
“Blackleg” means Pectobacterium spp;
“Black Scurf” means Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn;
“Blight” means Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary;
“Brown Rot” means Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al.;
“Colorado Beetle” means Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say);
“Common Scab” means Streptomyces species;
“Dickeya” means Dickeya spp.;
“Dry Rot” means Fusarium species;
“Gangrene” means Phoma species;
“Leafroll” means Potato Leafroll Virus;
“Potato Cyst Nematode” means Globodera (Heterodera) species infesting potatoes;
“Potato Tuber Eelworm” means Ditylenchus destructor (Thorne);
“Powdery Scab” means Spongospora subterranea (Wallr.) Lagerh;
“PSTVd” means Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid;
“PVA” means Potato Virus A;
“PVY” means Potato Virus Y;
“Ring Rot” means Clavibacter michiganensis (Smith) Davis et al. ssp. sepedonicus (Spiek & Kotth) Davies et al.;
“Silver Scurf” means Helminthosporium solani;
“Skin Spot” means Polyscytalum pustulans (Owen & Wakefield) M.B. Ellis;
“Wart Disease” means Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb.) Perc..

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/190/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-3
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