A gene controlling potato growth limits the plant’s fertilizer uptake. Tweaking related genes could lead to more sustainable potato varieties.

Heat, dry spells and flooding—the whole of nature is under stress, and potatoes are no exception. As a food staple, there is ...

Researchers have identified the StCDF1 factor as a key regulator of nitrogen use in potatoes, influencing both nitrate uptake and tuber development. - Inactivation of the StCDF1 gene in modern potato ...

Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system, and along with Venus, one of Earth’s two closest planetary neighbors. It is rocky, dry, and freezingly cold with temperatures ranging between ...

Because nitrogen fertilizers contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions, scientists are looking for ways to modify ...

RUPERT — What if you could have a baked potato in minutes, instead of an hour? Mart Frozen Foods, a subsidiary of the Mart Group, cut the ribbon earlier this month on a plant in Southern Idaho ...

The plant stopped processing potatoes on Sept. 30, and Lamb Weston announced the ... for economic development in the Connell ...

Researchers identify the crucial protein for controlling ... The biosynthetic pathway of specific steroidal compounds in nightshade plants (such as potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants) starts with ...

The next step in the development of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans will be the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s submission of its scientific report to the Agriculture and Health and ...

Streams that run through Prince Edward Island's potato country are contaminated with levels of an environmentally-destructive ...