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.

A gene controlling potato growth limits the plant’s fertilizer uptake. Tweaking related genes could lead to more sustainable potato varieties.

“We are basically about two years away from a baked potato on your plate or a French fry at McDonalds,” Matthew Foth said. Foth owns Foth Farms, a seed potato operation based in Toston. With more than ...

Mars once boasted abundant water, warmer temperatures, and a thicker atmosphere, offering a potentially habitable ecosystem ...

See NASA rover's spectacular photos of a "potato eclipse" on Mars as its "asteroid moon" Phobos transited across the sun's disk to cause a partial solar eclipse.

The white edges along these gullies in Mars’ Terra Sirenum are believed to be dusty water ice. Scientists think meltwater could form beneath the surface of this kind of ice, providing a place for ...

Shareef El-Sissi wants to change that, so in 2017, he started building a massive hemp farm on the sun-soaked eastern edge of the Bay Area. Seven years and $10 million later, he just may have ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified the risk level of a potato salad product that was taken off shelves as Class I—the most severe category. Lemonland Food Corp recalled a ...

PLANO, Texas, Oct. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Biscuits & Gravy, Cheesy Garlic Bread and Wasabi Ginger are some of the most beloved potato chip varieties in Lay's® long history of flavor ...

It takes almost a decade to develop a new variety of potato, and that's why researchers at Cavendish Farms are planting 100,000 plantlets a year in the search for a better fit for P.E.I. growers.