2023 Potato Expo Event
January 4-5, 2023, Aurora, Colorado
Potato Research Advisory Committee Booth #1106
Potato Expo is the largest annual potato industry conference and trade show held in North America.
Learn more about the Potato Expo event
January 4-5, 2023, Aurora, Colorado
Potato Research Advisory Committee Booth #1106
Potato Expo is the largest annual potato industry conference and trade show held in North America.
Learn more about the Potato Expo event
For most nematode species causing the greatest economic damage to U.S. potato growers, commercially viable resistant varieties simply do not exist. See how the PAPAS project is working to ensure U.S. potato growers have resistant variety options for the full range of economically important nematode species across market classes.
Three University of Idaho graduate students from the PAPAS team presented posters at the 2025 Washington State University Plant Science Symposium.
For decades, potato growers have fought nematodes with fumigation, crop rotation, and strict sanitation measures. While these practices remain essential, other management options need to be considered.
For the first time since its discovery in 2006, the pale cyst nematode (Globodera pallida; PCN) has been successfully eradicated from a field in Idaho—thanks in part to the PAPAS team.
Expanding its international collaboration in potato nematode research and management, the PAPAS team joins PCN Action Scotland and NEM-EMERGE to host a Potato Nematode Stakeholder Workshop at the European Society of Nematologists 36th Symposium in Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands on June 2, 2026.
Learn more about why sampling for nematodes is important for potatoes; consideration for soil sampling (number of samples, depth, time of year); and research about potato nematode presence and sampling.