A small degree of Botrytis infection all but guaranteed in New York strawberry fields despite even the best fungicide spray ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.

Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding successes have been modest. Some of the most popular potato cultivars were bred ...

It was at the tail end of last season that monitoring by Fight Against Blight (FAB) confirmed the EU46 strain had been found ...

Folkland Organic Foods is preparing to enter — or maybe define — the world of premium frozen french fries. Folkland is the ...

A new variety of disease-resistant rice has been developed for use in Africa, where farmers have been dealing with ruined crops that threaten food security. Many regions are seeing rice plants ...

While resistant to fire blight, it is susceptible to bitter pit, powdery mildew, apple scab, and cedar apple rust. There are no known cedar trees nearby… but we will have to keep an eye on these 2-3 ...

MLB resistance is predominantly quantitative, which has important implications for developing resistant maize varieties (Kumar et al., 2016). Several studies have suggested that maize has an ...

when sown late (average sowing date October 20), the effective disease rating increased by 0.6. This shows how a flexible, risk-based approach can underpin efforts to reduce fungicide inputs. By ...

If flower blight continues to be a problem, you can try growing blight-resistant varieties such as Kanjiro or Debutante. Q. My houseplants were getting dusty, so I took them outside to hose them ...

Gardening experts have trialled and tasted tomatoes to recommend the best varieties for you to grow ... and the plants develop and fruit well. Late blight (Phytophthora infestans) is similar to potato ...