There are three main potato varieties: starchy, waxy and versatile all-purpose. Understanding these different types of ...

After harvesting, it's important to remember the next step: curing. "Curing toughens up a potato’s skin and extends its ...

STURGEON BAY, Wis. —- Stored inside a nondescript building and greenhouse in Door County is the equivalent of much of the world’s potato blueprints. Wisconsin is home to many things, but it ...

Potatoes, an essential food in human nutrition, have two new varieties. They are 'Entzia' and 'Miren,' characterized by their great nutritional value and suitability for industrial processing.

Your favorite potato chip might be at risk, as new potato diseases have been identified in Pennsylvania. Several species of bacteria that had not been seen before in the state, as well as one that ...

A new study shows that a native potato species was brought to southern Utah by Indigenous people in the distant past, adding to an ever-growing list of culturally significant plant species that ...