RALEIGH -- The humble sweet potato -- a staple in Southern cuisine and perennial favorite on Thanksgiving dinner tables -- is suddenly looking a lot more cosmopolitan. With U.S. consumption growing ...

Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding successes have been modest. Some of the most popular potato cultivars were bred ...

The UK could suffer a shortage of chips and roast potatoes after floods in Europe ruined crops, according to a new report. This summer, the potato industry suffered from unprecedented weather and as a ...

Farmers across Europe are protesting amid one of the most plentiful potato harvests in years, as the unintended consequences of US tariffs and increased competition drive down prices. More than twenty ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes. A research team has ...

- Farmers urged to reconsider - While that suggests the European potato sector is not under threat in the long-term, farmers are still feeling the immediate consequences. At the end of last year, the ...

Farmers unloaded tonnes of potatoes in front of the French National Assembly in January - Copyright AFP/File Martin LELIEVRE Farmers unloaded tonnes of potatoes in ...