Researching the potential for breeding PCN-resistant russet varieties, an important step toward developing more PCN-resistant potato varieties for a stronger potato industry.
One of the environments the Cornell potato breeding program uses to test elite clones are muck fields in the northern part of New York.
Research collecting potato pollen for developing varieties resistant to nematodes.
Researchers see promising results studying the efficacy of Solanum sisymbriifolium (litichi tomato or sticky nightshade) as a non-host trap crop to help eliminate pale cyst nematode in eastern Idaho.
Advancing potato varieties with resistance to Columbia root-knot nematode (CRKN) through genomic prediction.
Developing a potato cultivar that is resistant to both Potato Virus Y (PVY) and potato cyst nematodes.