Ring rot has been discovered in a crop at a Lincolnshire Farm
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A case of the highly infectious potato ring rot has been identified.
Defra has traced the outbreak at a Lincolnshire farm to an infected supply of seed potato received from the Netherlands in 2003.
The contaminated Sante seed potato has also led to outbreaks of ring rot at a farm in Herefordshire and farms in the Netherlands.
Ring rot is known as the foot-and-mouth of the plant world and causes the potatoes to rot.
The seed potatoes supplied to the farms in Lincolnshire and Herefordshire derived from a Sante stock with a clonal link to a stock implicated in a 2004 ring rot finding in the Netherlands.
While investigations in both the UK and the Netherlands are still in progress, the finding increases the likelihood that the Sante seed potatoes from the Netherlands in 2003 were a factor in the Lincolnshire and Herefordshire outbreak.
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