Protecting Potatoes from Nematodes
February is National Potato Lovers Month! We’re working to protect one of the world’s most popular vegetables—and farmers’ bottom lines—from nematodes.
February is National Potato Lovers Month! We’re working to protect one of the world’s most popular vegetables—and farmers’ bottom lines—from nematodes.
PAPAS Project Director Louise-Marie Dandurand, Ph.D., attended the NEM-EMERGE consortium’s 2nd Annual Meeting in Istanbul, hosted by Ondokuz Mayıs University.
The PAPAS team will once again be presenting about nematode management at the annual Washington and Oregon Potato Conference, January 27-29, 2026, at the Three Rivers Convention Center, Tri-Cities, Washington.
This panel discussion covers cornerstones of nematode management, presenting the latest information on economic thresholds, and providing an update on the development of nematode resistant potatoes.
Join us at the 58th annual Idaho Potato Conference and Eastern Idaho Ag Expo Jan. 21-22, 2026, and hear from the PAPAS team about potato nematode management.
This year at Potato Expo in Dallas, we’ll once again be in the Potato Research Advisory Committee booth #1132, where you’ll have a chance to test your nematode knowledge and win a prize.
Three University of Idaho graduate students from the PAPAS team presented posters at the 2025 Washington State University Plant Science Symposium.
Six postdoc students from the PAPAS team presented their research at the 2025 Virtual Nematology Conference.
Three PAPAS researchers recently traveled to South Africa to meet with nematologists from around the world.
Nematologists and plant pathologists gather to learn what’s new in potato nematode diagnostics.