Potato
The potato is a starchy tuberous vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are underground stem tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
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Semiochemicals and odorant receptors underlying potato cultivar sus...
Understanding exactly which potato smells attract destructive moths could help breeders develop p...
Oomycete plant pathogens: biology, pathogenesis and emerging contro...
Oomycetes cause the kind of plant diseases that rot your tomatoes, wipe out potato crops, and can...
Drought stress intensifies early blight and compromises potato yield.
The potatoes in your grocery store are increasingly grown under water-stressed conditions, and th...
FT florigen proteins in photoperiodic signaling: Conservation and d...
The potatoes on your plate and the tomatoes in your garden know when to flower and form tubers be...
Recent advances in generation of doubled haploid plants for genetic...
Faster, more precise plant breeding could soon bring you tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes that are...
ORANGE: a tale of two pigments and two organelles.
When a tomato on your vine shifts from green to deep orange as it ripens, a single protein is cho...
Seed Potato Bacteria Transfer Across Generations Within the Tuber Flesh.
Potatoes you plant in your garden carry an invisible legacy of helpful bacteria from their parent...
Combined application of nano-magnesium oxide and humic acid improve...
Growing potatoes through a dry summer just got more tractable — two affordable soil and foliar am...
Precision-engineered starch: Integrating metabolic engineering and ...
Staple crops like potatoes, corn, and rice are being quietly rewritten at the molecular level so ...
Genome Editing in Root and Tuber Crop Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Cassava and sweet potato feed hundreds of millions of people in Africa, and the same gene-editing...
Phytochemical profile, biological activities, and biotic stress fac...
The potato skins you might be peeling away and discarding are actually packed with protective com...
Plant-based meat alternatives: understanding the benefits and trade...
Plants in your grocery store's 'meat' aisle — soy, peas, wheat — are being engineered into ultra-...
Soil bacteria can flip potato tuber-forming genes into high gear
If you grow potatoes, the microbial life you cultivate in your soil isn't just background noise —...
Evaluating LED parameters in a growth chamber to maintain potato yi...
Growing your own seed potatoes indoors just got more practical — tuning the ratio of red to blue ...
ERF transcription factor StPti5 is a regulator of endophyte communi...
Potato plants you grow have an invisible social life underground—and tweaking one gene could let ...
One gene switch controls potato's natural toxin production
The next time you leave a bag of potatoes near a sunny window and see them turn green, you're wat...
Decades of potato farming tip root-zone microbes toward pathogens
The soil under a potato patch is a living system, and every year you till it you're quietly tradi...
Systemic mobile RNAs: From molecular mechanisms to agricultural app...
The potato in your garden doesn't decide to form tubers by accident — a tiny RNA molecule travels...
Gene-edited potatoes pack in more vitamin A precursor
The humble potato, already a dinner-table staple for billions, could become a frontline defense a...
Phosphoric acid-activated biochars from orange and potato peels as ...
If your vegetable beds or orchard sit near farm fields treated with weed killers or insecticides,...
LATE BLIGHT OF POTATO CAUSED BY PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS AND ITS INTE...
If you've ever grown potatoes and watched the leaves suddenly turn brown and collapse seemingly o...
LATE BLIGHT OF POTATO CAUSED BY PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS AND ITS INTE...
If you grow potatoes in your garden, a single cool, wet week in summer is all it takes for late b...
Deep convolutional models for robust multi-crop disease recognition...
If you grow tomatoes, potatoes, or grapes in your backyard and something starts going wrong with ...
Wild bittersweet nightshade keeps the same root microbes across wil...
Native plants in your neighborhood may be carrying their own stable communities of beneficial mic...
Desert bacterium helps potatoes thrive in salty farm soil
If you've ever struggled with a white crust forming on garden soil near a driveway or coastline, ...
Overcoming breeding barriers with genome editing in autopolyploid crops.
The potato in your garden likely carries four copies of every gene — meaning breeders have to kno...
Edible plants engineered to carry vaccines could replace needles an...
The potato plant in your garden could one day carry a working vaccine inside its cells, grown and...
Morphological and hormonal diversity in rose (Rosa hybrida L.) and ...
Roses and potatoes bred with this bacterial trick could be made more compact, root more easily fr...
A genome sequence and efficient CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tools for ...
Those tiny pale stipples appearing on the undersides of your tomato leaves in July are spider mit...
Aphids swarm potato fields right at seedling emergence, study finds
If you grow potatoes in your own garden, the weeds and nearby alfalfa or grain fields around you ...
Scientists find the gene behind stunted, dark-leaved potato plants
Potato breeders often cross wild and cultivated varieties to boost hardiness, and this discovery ...
New sensor reads viral protein networks before symptoms show
If your tomatoes or peppers ever came down with a mysterious virus that spread through the whole ...
Gene-edited potatoes could mean healthier, safer french fries
The next bag of fries or chips you buy could come from a potato engineered to resist the cold-sto...
Peanut waste liquid fertilizer boosts potato harvests and soil life
If you've ever composted scraps to feed your garden, this shows how a food-processing byproduct c...
Solar panels over veggie crops could triple rural income
If you've ever wondered whether solar panels and food crops have to compete for the same land, th...
WEED MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN POTATO AND ONION PRODUCTION IN THE PA...
If you grow potatoes or onions and yellow nutsedge keeps muscling in, these field-tested herbicid...
One gene family could make potatoes tougher against many stresses
Potatoes are one of the most widely grown food crops on the planet, and the same genetic switches...
Silicon nanoparticles help potatoes cope with alkaline soil stress
If your garden soil runs alkaline (common near concrete foundations or in limestone-heavy regions...
Tobacco plant compound reverses diabetes damage in mouse study
The waxy coating on tobacco and tomato leaves in your garden contains solanesol, a compound now s...
Extra genome copies help crops evolve and adapt faster
The bread you eat and the cotton in your shirt both come from plants carrying doubled or tripled ...
Potato hormone and gene clues could stop scab disease
The potatoes in your garden bed or on your dinner plate are under constant threat from a soil pes...
Disabling one potato gene delays both flowers and tubers
The potatoes on your dinner plate form underground tubers on a strict internal clock, and this st...
Nordic countries pool 50 years of crop trial data
The barley in your beer and the red clover cover crop in a nearby field were bred using trial dat...
Chemical mutagen creates trackable DNA changes in potato plants
The potatoes in your garden bed could one day come from a variety bred faster this way, since che...
Potato viruses hide unevenly across leaves, stems, and tubers
If you grow potatoes in raised beds or a backyard plot, the seed potato you plant this spring may...
Mung bean starch makes the sturdiest Red Bull jelly candy
The starch in your kitchen pantry, whether scraped from a potato or milled from corn or mung bean...
