According to agricultural marketing department data, the seed potato stock declined to 5.67 lakh tonnes by late October, against the annual demand of 7.5 lakh tonnes ...

When you eat a baked potato at a restaurant, or bite into a french fry, there is a good chance the seed it came from started ...

When you eat a baked potato at a restaurant, or bite into a french fry, there is a good chance the seed it came from started in Montana.

The company has come up with a novel initiative launching “box cold store” for seed potatoes. The first such store has been ...

Dormancy is the mysterious plant behavior that "protects against ... Peruvian Andes traveled to Svalbard to deposit seeds of their sacred potato varieties in the vault. In songs and prayers ...

“A potato plant stressed by drought will consume itself,” she explains ... These pure white turnips which do best when ...

Bangladesh requires around 770,000 tonnes of seeds to grow potato every year, but public and private agencies can meet only 20 percent of the demand. Seeds kept by farmers and informally meet 80 ...

The NASA-led investigation intends to inspire Native American youth to pursue STEM careers, while also preserving heirloom ...

potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of thousands of crop varieties ...

During the programme, plant protection scientist Dr Madhumita Sonowal Bora demonstrated seed treatment of potato and apprised the participants of seed rate, spacing, and insect pest and disease ...

One group of scientists risked everything to preserve their seed bank, as Simon Parkin writes in The Forbidden Garden of ...