Washington State University Potato Research Overview (Video)
Introduction into Washington State University (a PAPAS partner) Potato Research Group: research projects, partnerships, and extension outreach.
Found in the western US, Columbia root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne chitwoodi) infects potato roots and tubers, causing blemishes and defects that reduce quality.
PAPAS and the Cornell Potato Breeding Program work towards developing cultivars that are compatible with growers’ production systems and resistant to nematodes.
Searle Farms owner-grower Bryan Searle, (Shelley, Idaho) recounts the challenges of pale cyst nematode detection in 2006.
Three PAPAS researchers recently traveled to South Africa to meet with nematologists from around the world.
One of the environments the Cornell potato breeding program uses to test elite clones are muck fields in the northern part of New York.
See how extracts from litchi tomato (Solanum sisymbriifolium) are made afrom plant material for potato nematode research.