Dedicated potato industry funding, provided by the industry levy, has been allocated to research and development into the best practice use of CIPC, with additional projects conducted to look at alternative sprout suppressant treatments. Further projects have assessed other ways of applying existing treatments.
Current and recent research carried out on sprout suppression includes the following Potato Council projects
- Storage
- Sprouting
- Sprout suppression
- CIPC
- Ethylene
- Maleic hydrazide
- Spearmint oil
- Clove oil
- Carvone
- Chemical Application