Washington State University Potato Research Overview (Video)
Introduction into Washington State University (a PAPAS partner) Potato Research Group: research projects, partnerships, and extension outreach.
PAPAS and the Cornell Potato Breeding Program work towards developing cultivars that are compatible with growers’ production systems and resistant to nematodes.
Damage to potatoes caused by northern root-knot and Columbia root-knot nematodes.
Researchers at the University of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences are working to develop potatoes resistant to the pale cyst nematode.
See how extracts from litchi tomato (Solanum sisymbriifolium) are made afrom plant material for potato nematode research.
Searle Farms owner-grower Bryan Searle, (Shelley, Idaho) recounts the challenges of pale cyst nematode detection in 2006.
PAPAS and the Cornell Potato Breeding Program plant multiple elite breeding clones to evaluate nematode resistance.