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Idaho team spends most of its time developing russet potatoes for making French fries. But the pipeline includes a steady stream of spuds for chipping.
Idaho team spends most of its time developing russet potatoes for making French fries. But the pipeline includes a steady stream of spuds for chipping.
Idaho team spends most of its time developing russet potatoes for making French fries. But the pipeline includes a steady stream of spuds for chipping.
A University of Idaho-led research team has received a $6.8 million U.S. Department of Agriculture award to develop new diagnostic tools, management practices and resources for controlling harmful nematodes in potato fields.<p>Nematodes are tiny roundworms with unsegmented bodies. Most nematodes are beneficial to soil, but plant-parasitic nematodes attack plant roots and may kill entire plants.<p>Potato nematodes can significantly reduce spud yields but are not a human health issue.<p>The project’s goals include developing support models to guide growers’ management decisions, identifying molecular assays to differentiate nematode pathotypes, developing resistant potato varieties and creating a “smart chemical” for nematode-specific control.<p>Louise-Marie Dandurand, with U of I’s Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Nematology, heads the project, titled “PAPAS: Potatoes and Pests, Actionable Science Against Nematodes.”<p>The four-ye