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.
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On-Farm Trial Planting to Evaluate Elite Golden Nematode Resistant Potato Clones (Video)
PAPAS and the Cornell Potato Breeding Program plant multiple elite breeding clones to evaluate nematode resistance.
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Developing Pale Cyst Nematode Resistant Potatoes (Video)
Researchers at the University of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences are working to develop potatoes resistant to the pale cyst nematode.
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Selecting Potato Varieties with Nematode Resistance
Learn about the potato selection process when evaluating crosses with nematode resistance from field trials.
