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.
One of the environments the Cornell potato breeding program uses to test elite clones are muck fields in the northern part of New York.
Potato breeding programs use smaller tubers to grow potatoes in the field the following year.
Similar to farmers picking out rocks from their fields over decades and still finding more, many potato fields have an endless supply of rocks.
Learn about our research investigating litchi tomato for new nematode management chemistries.
A potato breeder never truly knows what they’ll get from a cross until the first harvest in the field.
Found in the western US, Columbia root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne chitwoodi) infects potato roots and tubers, causing blemishes and defects that reduce quality.
Learn more about one of the objectives of the PAPAS project: to develop cultivars resistant to several nematodes that attack potatoes.
Read our newsletter to learn more about the PAPAS project goals, research team, and industry impact of potato nematodes.
Research to help determine the impact of pale cyst nematode population densities on different potato varieties.
Damage to potatoes caused by northern root-knot and Columbia root-knot nematodes.