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How do plants defend themselves against pathogenic microorganisms? This is a complex puzzle, of which a team of biologists from the University of Amsterdam has solved a new piece. The team, led by Harrold ...

Scientists at Moscow University evaluated how composite gel-forming soil conditioners attract moisture depending on its activity and ambient temperature. To do this, the researchers used a new method to remove water molecules ...

A transnational team of European researchers has discovered solanimycin, a new antifungal antibiotic. The substance, which was first isolated from a pathogenic bacterium that infects potatoes, seems to be produced by a ...

The Kurgan Agricultural Academy has developed a technology for microclonal propagation of potatoes, which allows you to breed super-elite quality potato seeds, clearing plants of viruses and diseases, and significantly increase yields, ...

Land samples will be collected three times. Tyumen scientists for the first time took soil samples in Salekhard for potato phytopathogens. The Yamal agricultural experimental station was included in the all-Russian scientific ...

Root lesion nematode is a tiny pest, about one millimetre in length. But it has an outsized ability to damage potatoes in Canada. The reason? It’s part of a complex of pests ...

An innovative method of controlling a range of damaging crop diseases using native, beneficial soil bacteria has emerged from a research-industry collaboration. The agri-tech innovation hopes to give farmers a way to ...

John Innes Centre team isolated and tested hundreds of strains of Pseudomonas bacteria from the soil of a commercial potato field

Abstract Potato wart disease is considered one of the most important quarantine pests for cultivated potato and is caused by the obligate biotrophic chytrid fungus Synchytrium endobioticum. This review integrates observations from early potato ...

A team of at least 13 scientists from USA, France, Saudi Arabia and Great Britain recently released a paper that brings another new hope for potato growers around the world in their ...

Russian scientists from the State Agrarian University of Novosibirsk, together with colleagues from the UK, have for the first time blocked an inhibitor that makes insects larvae invulnerable to the action of ...

From water management methods to research project results, our resources will help you to decide when and how to irrigate.   Why do we irrigate? Water is applied to potato crops to ...

In recent decades, the market for fresh produce – and, in particular, minimally processed, ready-to-eat products like fresh-cut lettuce – has grown substantially. At the same time, outbreaks related to foodborne pathogens, and ...

Yi Wang, Assistant Professor & Extension Potato and Vegetable Production Specialist, University of Wisconsin Madison-Over the last six months, I made several extension vlogs about different aspects of commercial potato production. These ...

Even though resistance to Pectobacterium species is limited within cultivated potato varieties, it is known that a wild potato relative (S. chacoense) is resistant to them; however, until recently, the underlying mechanisms of this ...

The storage season offers a plethora of potential challenges for potato growers. These challenges can include shrink, sprouting, bruising and rot. Although the doors may be closed on the storage, these concerns ...

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY: This trans-disciplinary CAP project addresses three legislatively mandated areas; research in plant breeding and genetics of disease resistance; efforts to identify and address threats from pests and diseases; and efforts to ...

Potatoes are an important crop throughout the world but a new and, so far, undescribed disease has been observed on potato plants during the growing season, and in tubers during the storage ...

Summary BBSRC, on behalf also of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Scottish Government, announces a call for research to address ...

To help tackle the challenge of sustainable food production, we are developing a digital agronomy system that aims to increase the precision with which agro-chemicals are applied. The tool we are developing ...

After 20 years of biotechnological research, the first GM potato that is resistant to the PVY virus will go on sale next year in Argentina Its productive and economic benefits are estimated ...

The joboto or blind Hen has been a problem that has directly affected the production costs and yields in the vegetable harvest of Zarcero producers for many years, especially in the lower ...