ARS Research Labs Studying Potato

• Western Regional Research Center: Crop Improvement and Genetics Research
• Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research
• Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center
• Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Sugarbeet and Potato Research
• Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit
• Vegetable Crops Research
• Food Science and Market Quality and Handling Research
• Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory
• Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research

85 Research Projects Studying Potato

• Experimentation, model development and on-farm application crop and soil process models for corn, potato...experiment stations (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory)
• Evaluation of carboxamide derivatives to suppress potato sprouting as an alternative to current dormancy promoting chemistries (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Food Quality Laboratory)
• Immune priming of potato plants with thiamin for management of common scab (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory)
• Filling the pits caused by potato common scab in north dakota (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory)
• Field validation of a quantitative pcr diagnostic assay for common scab of potato (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory)
• Eastern potato breeding group seed nursery (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory)
• Field performance evaluation of 497 novel primary dihaploid potato lines (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory)
• Eastern potato breeding group seed nursery (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory)
• Diploid potato breeding for scab resistance and heat tolerance (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory)
• Diploid potato breeding for scab resistance and heat tolerance (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory)
• Identification and manipulation of potato genes involved in thaxtomin response to manage common scab disease (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory)
• Optimizing predator and prey pheromones: manipulating tritrophic interactions to manage colorado potato beetle (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Invasive Insect Biocontrol & Behavior Laboratory)
• Mediating insecticide resistance development in colorado potato beetle (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Invasive Insect Biocontrol & Behavior Laboratory)
• Behavioral control for colorado potato beetle (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: Invasive Insect Biocontrol & Behavior Laboratory)
• Molecular characterization, epidemiology and management of potato corky ring spot disease caused by tobacco rattle virus (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: National Germplasm Resources Laboratory)
• Molecular characterization of tuber necrotic potato viruses and evaluating the effectiveness of biopesticides in controlling powdery scab and pmtv (Beltsville Agricultural Research Center: National Germplasm Resources Laboratory)
• Understanding postharvest physiology of potato by genomics, phenomics, bioinformatics (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit)
• Mitigating potato seed decay and associated economic losses using enhanced suberization strategy (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit)
• Identifying the molecular mechanisms controlling wound-healing processes to improve postharvest quality of potato (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit)
• Integrating metabolome and phytohormone analyses to investigate postharvest physiology of potato (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit)
• Impact of agronomic and post-harvest management practices on potato quality (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit)
• Integration of advanced technologies for documenting the impact of climate-induced stress on whole potato plant growth and development (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit)
• Monitoring potato plant, root and tuber growth via non-destructive means to identify key factors impacting climate adaptability of cultivars (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit)
• Understanding pressure bruise susceptibility of russet potato cultivars using x-ray ct and cell wall analyses (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit)
• Utilizing inbred potato clones to determine key molecular mechanisms regulating tuber dormancy (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit)
• Genomics, phenomics, bioinformatics for understanding postharvest physiology of potato (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit)
• Using image analysis to quantify potato storage defects (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit)
• Using image analysis to quantify potato storage defects (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit)
• Developing novel strategies for optimizing potato postharvest storage quality by identifying molecular processes regulating tuber dormancy, wound-healing, and physiological aging (Edward T. Schafer Agricultural Research Center: Potato, Pulse, and Small Grains Quality Research Unit)
• Developing high throughput phenotyping tools for climate smart sweet potato (Global Change and Photosynthesis Research)
• Systems approach to controlling nematodes in us potato production (Horticultural Crops Disease and Pest Management Research)
• Potato cyst nematode (globodera spp.) genetic diversity (Horticultural Crops Disease and Pest Management Research)
• Screening for viruses pathogenic to potato cyst nematode (Horticultural Crops Disease and Pest Management Research)
• Potato research (National Programs)
• Utilization of essential oils as biopesticides and potato sprouting inhibitors (Natural Products Utilization Research)
• Enhancing soil health in potato production by applying soil amendments and manipulating post-fumigation microbiomes (New England Center for Sustained Soil and Water Health)
• Disease and sprout control in potato tubers using cold atmospheric-pressure gaseous plasma technology (Northwest Irrigation and Soils Research Laboratory)
• Screening sweetpotato germplasm for black rot resistance (Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Research)
• Biology and management of invasive plant pathogens affecting potato and soybean (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research)
• Systems approach to controlling nematodes in u.s. potato production (ithaca) (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research)
• Evaluating verticillium wilt and black dot in potato, fungicide sensitivity, and development of genomic resources (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research)
• Engineering bacterial biosensors to detect potato pathogens (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research)
• Development and release of golden nematode resistant potatoes (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research)
• Potato cyst nematode (pcn) immunity (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research)
• Nanocarrier-delivered rnai-triggering dsrna toward the control of devastating nematode pests of potatoes and genome sequencing of wild potato clone (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research)
• Nanocarrier-delivered rnai-triggering dsrna towards the control of devastating nematode pests of potatoes (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research)
• Evaluating verticillium wilt and black dot in potato, fungicide sensitivity, and development of genomic resources (Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture & Health: Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research)
• Characterization of potato mop-top virus (pmtv) reactions in widely grown potato varities (Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research)
• Genetic improvement of potato for sustainable production and enhanced tuber qualities for the western united states (Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research)
• Systems approach to controlling nematodes in us potato production (aberdeen) (Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research)
• Uncovering the genetic traits underlying tuber greening resistance in potato (Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research)
• Assessment of sweetpotato cultivar performance and integrated pest management strategies for small-scale farms in the mississippi delta region (Southern Insect Management Research)
• Identifying the sources of aphids and aphid-vectored viruses afflicting potato fields (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Potato germplasm development for improved sustainability, disease resistance, nutrition, and quality (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Determining the threat and spread of new and novel south american ca. liberibacter species to north american potato crops and wild potato germplasms (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• The whirligig mite and new biological control opportunities in potatoes (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Pyramiding of potato virus y and columbia root-knot nematode resistances using greenhouse and molecular marker screening (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• New technologies and strategies for managing emerging insect pests and insect transmitted pathogens of potatoes (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Rna-based pesticides to manage insect-vectored plant pathogens in potato (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Assessing traits or optimizing management of new potato lines with improved disease resistance, yield, or quality (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Evaluating phenotypes or optimizing management of new potato lines with improved disease resistance, yield, or quality (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Phenotyping or optimizing management of new potato lines with improved disease resistance, yield, or quality (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Characterization of novel viruses pathogenic to potato psyllid (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Support for the investigation of emerging and persistent potato diseases in the northwest (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Biopesticides for the potato psyllid (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Developing new tools to predict migration of insect vectors into potato crops (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Enhancing integrated insect pest management strategies for u.s. potato production systems (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Systems approach to controlling nematodes in us potato production (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Regional sampling network for insect pests of potato in the columbia basin of wa (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Exploring pathogenicity factors of phytoplasma causing potato purple top disease in the northwestern u.s. (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Discovery and application of click beetle attractants for ipm of wireworms in potatoes (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Usda-ars/washington state university partnership to breed new potato cultivars with improved disease resistance, yield, and quality (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Characterization of novel viruses pathogenic to potato psyllid (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Integrating advanced diagnostic strategies for powdery scab and potato mop-top virus detection (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Comparison of monitoring tools for hemipteran vectors entering potato fields (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Usda-ars/university of idaho tri-state breeding partnership to produce new potato cultivars with pest/disease resistance and enhanced yield/quality (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Usda-ars/oregon state university partnership to breed new potato cultivars with improved disease resistance, yield, and quality (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Development of a spongospora subterranea and potato mop-top virus disease field for breeding and research purposes (Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research)
• Introgression of disease resistance and tuber quality traits from wild species relatives into diploid cultivated potato (Vegetable Crops Research)
• Management of potato genetic resources and associated descriptive information (Vegetable Crops Research)
• Managing fungal diseases of potato using small rna and peptide applications (Vegetable Crops Research)
• Contributions of pathogens, host, and the microbiome to susceptibility and tolerance to potato early dying (Vegetable Crops Research)
• Enhancing potato resilience to heat, drought, and cold through stress physiology and international germplasm collaboration (Vegetable Crops Research)
• Developing novel strategies for detection and management of vector-transmitted viruses of sweetpotato (Vegetable Research)
• Development of marketable root-knot nematode resistant sweetpotato varieties: translation of genomics & phenomics into on-farm management solutions (Vegetable Research)