Much like with COVID-19, a significant disease affecting potatoes, called potato virus Y, has been mutating into new and more concerning strains. Far fewer infections of the once-common strain PVY-O ...
Andrea Parish holds back Zora, her black Labrador Retriever, who is coiled like a spring. Zora, a detection dog, can’t wait to get to those potatoes. Parish scans the environment for potential ...
A North Dakota potato breeder brings in a speaker from Wyoming who has trained a dog to detect potato virus diseases using their nose. Andrea Parish of Dayton, Wyoming, sniffs bags of potato seed ...
A potato disease known as mop-top virus has been detected in Australia for the first time and is ravaging crops on a farm in Tasmania’s northwest. Biosecurity Tasmania were alerted to the virus and ...
A University of Idaho-led team will tackle a pair of viruses that cause major losses to the potato industry according to a report released last week by Idaho’s land-grant university. U of I researcher ...