News on Potato Defects and Diseases from California

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May 05, 2025
Pro Farm Group Launches ARINO Insecticide/ Nematicide to Protect Potatoes from Soil-Dwelling Pests
Pro Farm Group introduces ARINO™ insecticide/ nematicide, for the management of nematodes and wireworms in potatoes, onions and other bulb and tuberous vegetables. 
Potato field in Pennsylvania naturally infected with late blight, September 2014. Only surviving plants are Innate™ generation two (Courtesy: J.R. Simplot)
August 06, 2018
ARS scientists streamline process to introduce multiple genes - as is required to make potatoes resistant to late blight
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Albany, California, have found a way to streamline the process that scientists use to insert multiple genes into a crop plant. Simplot is planning to use it to introduce multiple genes into potatoes to make them resistant to late blight
Howerd Judelson, professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Riverside (Courtesy: UCR Strategic Communications)
April 06, 2011
Major late blight research project funded by the USDA
Given that world potato production is about 320 million tons per year (20 million tons per year in the United States) and world tomato production is about 120 million tons per year (13 million tons per year in the U.S.), late blight is a major problem worldwide even today.
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