Earlier this month, Breeders Trust - an organisation looking after the interest of a.o. potato breeders - revealed a major fraud, concerning the switching of at least 200 tons of potatoes meant for consumption, to seed potatoes.
Manitoba potato growers had expected to produce about 22 million hundredweight of potatoes in 2018, but the actual total will be about nine percent less.
Manitoba has a potato shortage. Potato production dropped heavily because of poor conditions at harvest.
Acrylamide in refined food is a growing and serious concern among international health authorities.
Scientists from the International Potato Center (CIP) are using wild potatoes to develop climate-resilient varieties.
In a recent interview with the Global Potato News magazine, Prof Francine Govers at the Laboratory of Phytopathology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands says she believes it is essential to approach the problem of late blight control.
Allan Siano is a Senior Science Research Specialist at the government of the Philippines, undertaking a PhD programme in Horticultural Science at the School of Agriculture and Environment of Massey University, New Zealand.
Understanding the contribution of seed tuber- and soilborne inoculum of Rhizoctonia solani AG 3-PT in causing black scurf disease epidemics is an important step in implementing effective
