Since few genetical investigations of dormancy in crop plants have been reported, an investigation of the cultivated potatoes was begun in 1959; the finding that, in this group, seed and tuber ...

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 ...

When potatoes are exposed to sunlight, they produce a compound called solanine. The more solanine you eat, the sicker you can ...

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

Israeli molecular farm startup Polopo is scaling its first sample batch of patatin (potato protein) from genetically modified ...

This ideal genotype could guide the breeding of hybrid potatoes. Potatoes are the most-consumed tuber crop globally. Some potato varieties are diploid (they have two sets of chromosomes), but ...

Potatoes are the bookend crops of the garden.  Planted in spring, their harvest is the hallmark of late summer into autumn.