Penn State researchers collect suspect plants from a potato field. The samples will be studied further in their laboratory. (Courtesy of Robert E. Leiby) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

ABERDEEN — Ongoing studies at the University of Idaho's Aberdeen Research & Extension Center seek to help seed potato growers avoid a chronically troublesome disease spread by aphids, called potato ...

University of Idaho Extension has published a new bulletin to help potato farmers recognize the symptoms of bacterial rot and protect their operations from the devastating crop disease. Idaho hasn’t ...

This release is available in Spanish. Wild potato germplasm that offers resistance to some major potato diseases has been identified by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists. Geneticists ...

Researchers are working to find out more about blight in plants such as potatoes. The disease has caused both famine and waves of human migration. They are focusing primarily on researching the ...

A North Dakota potato breeder brings in a speaker from Wyoming who has trained a dog to detect potato virus diseases using their nose. Andrea Parish of Dayton, Wyoming, sniffs bags of potato seed ...

If you try to order seed potatoes and find the company cannot ship potatoes to Nebraska; try another company or plan to purchase locally. The reason the company cannot ship to Nebraska is likely based ...

A potato disease which has not been found in Ireland before, potato brown rot, has been identified on a tillage farm in the southeast. Brown rot is caused by the bacterium ralstonia solanacearum. and ...

ABERDEEN — Ongoing studies at the University of Idaho’s Aberdeen Research & Extension Center seek to help seed potato growers avoid a chronically troublesome disease spread by aphids, called potato ...