How To Grow Potatoes

eighteen hundreds. The new genome could lead to better ways to protect potatoes, tomatoes and other crops. Science may supply a stronger crop. Yet that does not always guarantee demand. Nik Grunwald from the United States Agriculture Department worked on the international team that completed the genome. He says it is possible to grow potatoes that resist late blight. But these may not look like Russet potatoes. And most American farmers grow Russets because, as Nik Grunwald puts it, "that ...