A major potato pest has been eradicated from the UK more than two years after its discovery in the country. The Colorado ...

The spotted bronze head and shiny black-and-yellow-striped wings of the Colorado potato beetle are an unwelcome sight for farmers. Though larvae and adults feed primarily on potato plants, the ...

In East Africa and other regions, potato crops are currently threatened by a worm known as the potato cyst nematode. There could be new hope for protecting the plants, however, in the form of ...

The annual Miller Research Potato Pest Management Seminar is slated from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 18 at the Historic Wilson Theatre, 610 Fremont. St., Rupert, Idaho. (Capital Press file photo) The annual ...

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — University of Maine researchers are trying to produce potatoes that can better withstand warming temperatures as the climate changes. Warming temperatures and an extended growing ...

Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable ...

TOWNSEND -- Slimy, worm-like and invisible to the unaided eye, the potato cyst nematode could take a bite out of U.S. potato crops and profits. The PCN was recently found in Idaho, said Broadwater ...

The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Seed Potato Certification Program finalized a public-private partnership this January. The Wisconsin Potato Coalition will take over management of the ...

Biotechnology startup GreenLight Biosciences Inc. is going to make mass quantities of RNA -- a component of cells used in Covid-19 vaccines -- to combat crop pests. GreenLight has opened a facility in ...