It was at the tail end of last season that monitoring by Fight Against Blight (FAB) confirmed the EU46 strain had been found ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.

The ever-increasing death toll and the need to provide coffins for internments created demands on the finances of the Board ...

Books & the Arts / A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall ...

Cuts to federal research funding have cost Michigan's public universities tens of millions of dollars. Bigger cuts may be on ...

Research by German scientists into the genetic makeup of European potato varieties has revealed that, despite significant ...

By Duncan MboyahKenya and the International Potato Center (CIP) have signed a licensing agreement to transfer a biotech potato that is resistant to late blight disease.Dr. Eliud Kireger, the Director ...

Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding ...

See also: Potato blight: What UK farmers can learn from Europe How it reached the UK is unclear, although wind-blown spores are one possible explanation, according to Dr David Cooke, a plant ...