ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University potato breeders are donating a disease-resistant potato to Russia in an effort to help combat aggressive strains of potato late blight that are threatening to ...

Russia is teetering on the brink of a large-scale potato crisis ignited by the same virulent, fungal-like pathogen, Phytophthora infestans , more commonly called late blight, that was responsible for ...

Scientists at J.R. Simplot Company developed a potato genetically engineered to resist the late blight that destroyed crops of potatoes in Ireland in the 1840s and 1850s leading to the Irish Potato ...

BOISE, Idaho -- Three types of potatoes genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine are safe for the environment and safe to eat, federal officials announced. The ...

New research has shown that a strain of genetically-modified potato appears to be immune to the devastating fungus responsible for the famine of 1845. Late blight, caused by the organism Phytophthora ...

Researchers have made a discovery that could instigate a paradigm shift in breeding resistance to late blight - a devastating disease of potatoes and tomatoes costing the industry £5-6 billion a year ...

BOISE – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a potato genetically engineered by Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co. to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine and that still ...

The scourge began in the late summer of 1845, with a spate of unseasonably cool weather and weeks of fog and rain leading into the fall. Lesions began to appear on the leaves of the potato plants, and ...

It has been more than 150 years since the Irish potato famine, when the funguslike disease called blight annihilated the staple food for millions of people. But blight is still the most serious potato ...

The potatoes in question come from JR Simplot, a massive Idaho-based agricultural company probably best known as the biggest supplier of McDonald’s french fries. On November 2nd, the USDA approved two ...