And if you plan to grow as much of your festive dinner as possible, you might be wondering when to plant potatoes for Christmas.Yes, there’s nothing quite like growing your own fruit and vegetables.

Potato flowers are primarily pollinated by wind rather than bees, and each flower contains both the male and female parts ...

revealing how the potato famine pathogen has evolved to overcome plant defenses. This study, which used novel DNA sequencing ...

Research confirms the Four Corners potato was historically cultivated by Indigenous groups in the Southwest, showing advanced ...

‘A large number of people could be aided through the use of bioinformatics to improve staple crops like potatoes. The human ...

NC State researchers reveal more about the tit-for-tat evolutionary changes occurring in both potato plants and the pathogen ...

Late blight is a fungal disease that affects potatoes and tomatoes, and can cause widespread crop destruction.

Jean Ristaino, a plant pathologist at North Carolina State University who led the research group, acknowledges that many factors aside from potato blight contributed to the famine. They include “an ...

Sweet potato, a staple in combating global hunger, faces significant threats from pests like whiteflies and weevils, ...

While it’s not immediately intuitive to put taco fillings on a sweet potato, the combo works, says cookbook author Kiki ...

Looking to make an outstanding vegetarian chili? All you need to do is swap the meat for sweet potatoes for stand-out ...

Beyond beans, other foundations for non-meat burgers include lentils, mushrooms and sweet potatoes. The Drive-Through-Style ...