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 ...

A group of researchers is turning to AI to try to combat potato blight, a disease that has led to around 20% of global potato crop losses amounting to financial losses of over $4.5 billion. The new AI ...

A potato blight caused hardship for rural communities in 1845. Today, climate change is creating new threats, but there are ...

Small size reduces their value. Plus, sweet potatoes are sold by weight. Smaller potatoes mean there is less weight overall of the crop to sell.” Insect and disease pressures were normal for the year, ...

If you’ve been into a fish and chip shop in the last twelve months, you may well have seen a notice tacked to the wall about the impact of the potato shortage. Supermarkets, too, slapped temporary ...

Hassan Were (in red) plant pathologist at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology explain to Lesley Torrance from St. Andrews at United Kingdom University the Asante gynotype of Irish ...

An innovative method of controlling a range of damaging crop diseases using native, beneficial soil bacteria has emerged from a research-industry collaboration. An innovative method of controlling a ...

THIS is a substantial piece of work, born of wartime anxiety over possible inadequacy of potato seed supplies for necessary expansion in the acreage devoted to this crop. English growers import each ...