A POTATO blight advisory has been issued for large parts of the country by Met Eireann. The national forecaster explained ...

A group of researchers is turning to AI to try to combat potato blight, a disease that has led to around 20% of global potato crop losses amounting to financial losses of over $4.5 billion. The new AI ...

A NEW strain of British genetically modified potato ­appears immune to the devastating fungus responsible for the Great Famine of 1845 in Ireland, ­research has shown. Did you know with a Digital ...

Scientists at J.R. Simplot Company developed a potato genetically engineered to resist the late blight that destroyed crops of potatoes in Ireland in the 1840s and 1850s leading to the Irish Potato ...