Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Common scab's create crusty lesions on potato skins and make the potatoes unmarketable. Q: We put a lot of manure in our vegetable ...

Researchers have developed a way of controlling Streptomyces scabies, a pathogen that destroys potato crops, according to an article in the May issue of Microbiology Today. Researchers have developed ...

After a long season of planting, hilling, watering and weeding, unearthing a mound of scabby taters at harvest time is downright infuriating. Potato scab (Streptomyces scabies) is a bacteria that ...

Peters says common scab also causes deep pits that can affect french fry production because so many layers need to be peeled off to get rid of the pits. (Kirk Pennell/CBC) Newfoundland and Labrador ...

Why is the skin of my home-grown potatoes covered in patches of what almost looks like a rough, warty growth, and are they still safe to eat? Andrew Cullinane, Co Galway It sounds as if your potatoes ...

This is common scab, a bacterial disease of potato skins which causes rough, scabby patches, as is caused by Streptomyces scabies. Scabs appear during summer and persist on harvested tubers throughout ...

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Common scab in potatoes could be suppressed using less water in the future thanks to new molecular DNA technology helping researchers to understand the disease better. The starting point of the ...

A bid to synthetically produce a toxin that costs the Australian potato industry about $20 million annually might hold the key to beating the disease, Australian researchers say. Researcher Peter ...