While the above ground green shoots put out new leaves and stems the underground tubers form and swell. Edible portions of ...

The now-retired Diener, who was working as a plant pathologist with the Agricultural Research Service in Maryland, was trying to isolate the infectious agent responsible for potato spindle tuber ...

The potato was viewed as “peasant food” and dismissed as unworthy of broader societal adoption. The man who turned the tide ...

Potatoes are a versatile and rewarding crop for any gardener, providing a bounty of delicious tubers with minimal effort. Whether you have a sprawling garden or limited urban space, there are ...

Today the potato is the fifth most important crop worldwide, after wheat, corn, rice and sugar cane. But in the 18th century the tuber was a startling novelty, frightening to some, bewildering to ...

It uses this same method to “teach” potato plants to produce the egg white protein ovalbumin. In both cases, as the plants grow in the soil, they produce within the tuber the desired proteins ...