Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New Zealand-based couple who believed they had found the world's largest potato have had their chances of breaking a world ...

In many households, it’s common to find potatoes with small sprouts in the pantry. Especially with longer storage or ...

Dug may not be the world’s largest potato, but it’s still pretty spudtacular. When New Zealand couple Colin and Donna Craig-Brown first discovered the gigantic vegetable in their garden last August, ...

Potato plants boost the chemical defenses in their leaves when Guatemalan tuber moth larvae feed on their tubers, report researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI). While the potato's response ...

Have you ever cut into a potato to find a dark spot or hollow part? Early research shows that these defects are likely the result of calcium deficiencies in the potato—and that tuber calcium is ...

The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America before spreading globally from the 16th century. But despite its importance ...

They could not look less alike in the supermarket aisle, but a Chinese-led research team has uncovered an ancient link that makes a forerunner of the tomato a genetic parent of the potato. By ...