Pink Eye of Potato Quiz Pink Eye of Potato Quiz Take the Quiz! Get a perfect score! Earn the medallion! Questions may have more than one correct answer. Be sure to select all answers that are correct. If you don't get a perfect score, you can take the quiz again until you do! Please provide your email address to receive your digital medallion. Reference: Pink Eye of Potato Fact Sheet.Email(Required) 1) The most common symptom of pink eye is a wet, slimy deterioration of potato tubers.(Required) true false 2) In commercial potato production, severe pink eye can reduce tuber quality to the point that tubers will be rejected at processing plants.(Required) true false 3) Pink eye is caused by a(Required) bacterium fungus water mold phytoplasma nematode virus none of the above 4) Pink eye can make potato tubers more susceptible to diseases such as bacterial soft rot.(Required) true false 5) Management of pink eye involves(Required) preventing bruising of potato tubers at harvest improving drainage in potato fields where pink eye has been a problem planting resistant potato varieties controlling potato diseases that lead to leaf loss and canopy thinning removing and disposing of potato debris at the end of the growing season routinely applying preventative chemical sprays targeted for controlling pink eye decontaminating equipment that has come in contact with pink eye-affected tubers decontaminating soil in areas where pink eye has been a problem using a fumigant none of the above Δ
