Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced the availability of nearly $11 million in additional funds to implement an eradication strategy for potato cyst nematode in Idaho, USA. Agriculture ...

NWO researchers have produced a substance in the laboratory which wakens potato cyst nematodes (eelworms) from hibernation. Using this substance in a field of potatoes the eelworms came out of ...

Abstract The potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is a major world crop the yield of which greatly depends on growing management strategies but also on many pests, including quarantine potato cyst nematodes ...

Dutch plant ecologists have investigated how the potato cyst nematode can be controlled using Solanum sisymbriifolium, a member of the potato family. The plant produces a hatching agent which causes ...

Alessandra Guerrieri, Kristýna Floková, Lieke E. Vlaar, Mario L. Schilder, Gertjan Kramer, Aleksandra Chojnacka, Yannick R. van Dijk, Harro J. Bouwmeester and Lemeng Dong Potato cyst nematode (PCN) is ...

For a potato farmer, there are few moments as discouraging as a run-in with the potato cyst nematode, which causes yellowing leaves and stunted spuds to be covered in legions. The pest has been ...

In East Africa and other regions, potato crops are currently threatened by a worm known as the potato cyst nematode. There could be new hope for protecting the plants, however, in the form of ...

University of Idaho researchers are introducing genes from a plant in the nightshade family into potatoes, seeking to develop spuds that resist harmful nematodes. The plant, called litchi tomato, has ...

University of Idaho researchers are introducing genes from a plant in the nightshade family into potatoes, seeking to develop spuds that resist harmful nematodes. The plant, called litchi tomato, has ...

A genetically modified potato that could resist destructive blight, defend itself against parasitic worms, avoid bruising, and cut down on the accumulation of a suspected carcinogen during cooking ...

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