Selecting for Success: Thousands of Clones Go into the Ground
Thousands of different clones are grown and evaluated each year through potato breeding programs.
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Selecting for Success: Growing Potatoes in “Muck-nificent” Soil
One of the environments the Cornell potato breeding program uses to test elite clones are muck fields in the northern part of New York.
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Selecting for Success: Good Things Come from Small Potatoes
Potato breeding programs use smaller tubers to grow potatoes in the field the following year.
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Selecting for Success: Digging up Weeds, Rocks, Potatoes, Oh My!
Similar to farmers picking out rocks from their fields over decades and still finding more, many potato fields have an endless supply of rocks.
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Selecting for Success: Potato Harvest is like a Box of Chocolates
A potato breeder never truly knows what they’ll get from a cross until the first harvest in the field.
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Columbia Root-Knot Nematode Impact on Potato
Found in the western US, Columbia root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne chitwoodi) infects potato roots and tubers, causing blemishes and defects that reduce quality.
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PAPAS Newsletter: Breeding for Nematode Resistance in Commercial Potato Varieties
Learn more about one of the objectives of the PAPAS project: to develop cultivars resistant to several nematodes that attack potatoes.
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PAPAS Newsletter: Systems Approach Controlling Nematodes in US Potato Production
Read our newsletter to learn more about the PAPAS project goals, research team, and industry impact of potato nematodes.
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Washington State University Potato Research Overview (Video)
Introduction into Washington State University’s Potato Research Group: research projects, partnerships, and extension outreach.
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Four-Hill Plot Planting in a Breeding Program to Develop Nematode Resistant Potato Cultivars (Video)
PAPAS and the Cornell Potato Breeding Program work towards developing cultivars that are compatible with growers’ production systems and resistant to nematodes.
