TBZ is widely used as post-harvest treatment on potatoes since the early 1970s. Silver scurf on tubers can be reduced by the systemic broad-spectrum fungicide TBZ. TBZ is low toxicity and is used to prevent or control silver scurf for short time period, e.g. several months, with no effect on quality or retention of residues.Hide GA, Hirst JM, Griffith RL, 1969a. Control of potato tuber diseases with systemic fungicides. In: Proceedings of the Fifth British Insecticide and Fungicide Conference, Brighton. Croydon, UK: British Crop Protection Council, 310-4.
