Pampering potatoes

Potato storage seems to fare better with indigenous methods employed by farmers for generations

The world of french fries and potato salad

The potato, native to South America, invaded England in 1588, the year Elizabeth I's devil-may-care sea-dogs vanquished the Spanish Armada. It …

Assam on a platter

The demoralizing esculent

When it was introduced in Europe, people associated the potato with disease

Price hike: Bengal’s hot potato

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would do anything to check a price rise, even if that makes potatoes vanish or takes buses off the road

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Cheap storage for potatoes

An on-farm storage facility has been developed to see potatoes through the summer

Diabetes-free potatoes

Hairy potato

Potato against diabetes

Potato detector

Return of the blight?

A new aggressive strain ofpotato blight has started spreading in Europe and threatens crops across the world

Fried potatoes

Vaccine in a potato

The wild Mexican potato

That tames late blight

Frog helps potato

Leap over disease

Potato killer

The parasite that affects it, controls its own evolution

Scieniists perfecting protein-rich potato

Bugging incursions

Rotting potatoes

More losses for Bihar farmers

Self defence

From the Andes to the stars

Tuber trouble

Protein-enriched GM potato

Miracle medicine

Bananas that are actually vaccines. Potatoes that kill bacteria. Tobacco plants that fight tooth decay. Medical science has more tricks up its sleeve