Results of three-year field trial to test whether potatoes engineered to recognize blight can withstand races of blight in the UK have been released. In this study, genetically modified Desiree ...

In a three-year GM research trial, scientists boosted resistance of potatoes to late blight, their most important disease, without deploying fungicides. The findings, funded by the Biotechnology and ...

New research has shown that a strain of genetically-modified potato appears to be immune to the devastating fungus responsible for the famine of 1845. Late blight, caused by the organism Phytophthora ...

1kg (about 4 large) desiree potatoes, cut into 3cm chunks 1kg (about 2 medium) orange sweet potato (kumara), peeled, cut into 3cm chunks Place the potatoes and sweet potatoes in a large saucepan and ...