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Science News
June 19, 2004
Janet Raloff |
Coming Soon--Spud Lite Florida farmers have begun referring to the new spud as a "low-carb" cultivar. It's poised to hit groceries next January, just in time to take advantage of the low-carbohydrate-diet craze.   |
| National Gardening |
Timing The Potato Planting Potatoes can be planted very early in the season -- almost as soon as the frost is out of the ground and you're able to work the soil. In the North, you can plant your first crop of early maturing potatoes in April, usually six to eight weeks before the last frost. |
| National Gardening |
Fall Potato Planting In the South good seed potatoes may not be available for fall planting. Your best bet is to provide your own, even though there's some risk of planting diseased potatoes. |
| National Gardening |
Harvesting Potatoes After all your work of planting and caring for your potato plants, here's how to get the most from your harvest. |
Food Processing
August 2008 |
Getting the highest nutritional bang for your buck Potato preparation affects both taste and nutritional content |
| Garden Gate |
More Unusual Potatoes There are all kinds of unusual, gourmet potatoes becoming available these days. Exotic varieties that could only be obtained by the fanciest restaurants are now showing up in the local food stores right next to their more common cousins. And you can grow these spuds in your home garden. |
| National Gardening |
Harvesting Sweet Potatoes With sweet potato plants the vines don't die and signal harvesttime the way white potato vines do. This article tells you the best time to harvest, how to cure your sweet potatos and how to store them. |
Chemistry World
November 29, 2006
Bea Perks |
BASF Touts GM Spuds for Starch German chemical giant BASF is awaiting EU approval for commercial cultivation of one of its latest breakthroughs, an inedible potato called Amflora. The crop has been modified to produce a type of starch particularly suited to paper production. |
Chemistry World
December 19, 2013
Patrick Walter |
Court overturns approval to grow GM potato in Europe The second highest court in the EU has ruled that BASF's genetically modified potato Amflora cannot be planted in Europe. |
Chemistry World
December 4, 2012
Emma Stoye |
Low acrylamide potato on the horizon During cooking, different varieties of potatoes can produce widely varying levels of the carcinogen acrylamide. Researchers investigated the formation of the chemical in nine different potato varieties. |
Chemistry World
November 25, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
US approves low acrylamide spud The US Department of Agriculture has approved the first genetically engineered potato variety designed to produce less of the suspected carcinogen acrylamide when cooked. |
Reason
January 2001
Ronald Bailey |
Dr. Strangelunch Or: Why we should learn to stop worrying and love genetically modified food... |
| National Gardening |
Caring for Potatoes Caring for potatoes requires proper watering, cultivating and hilling. |
Chemistry World
February 7, 2013
Andrew Turley |
BASF drops GM potato projects BASF has announced that it is no longer seeking EU marketing approval for its controversial genetically modified potatoes. |
Chemistry World
July 22, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Monsanto abandons GM crops in Europe The company will focus on conventional breeding to develop new crop varieties in the EU, and develop biotech crops in regions where they are more accepted, such as North America. |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2012
Dan Caplinger |
What Cheaper Food Means for Your Portfolio Corn prices plummeted yesterday. Here's how you can win from it. |
Food Processing
June 2012
Mark Anthony |
Formulating Gluten-Free Products How did a grain protein that a statistical handful of people are allergic to end up the ingredient non grata of the 21st Century? |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2011
Jacob Roche |
Mr. Market Mistakes Good News for Bad What's going on with these fertilizer stocks? |
D-Lib
May 2002 |
Vegetable MD Online With another gardening season upon us, you may wish to explore the interesting collection of plant diseases by visiting the Vegetable MD Online web site... |
Science News
February 24, 2007
Janet Raloff |
Of Bamboo and French Fries A bamboo extract can limit the formation of a carcinogen in baked and fried foods. |
Food Processing
May 2006
Dave Fusaro |
Editor's Plate: Small-town and family values A lot of food companies started out dreaming big dreams based on a really good family recipe. |
Salon.com
November 14, 2000
John Thorne |
Trekking for Tibetan potatoes When it comes to recipes, I'm a hunter, not a gatherer... |
Chemistry World
May 23, 2011
James Mitchell Crow |
Hatching a plan to kill worm pests A parasitic pest that can devastate entire fields of vegetable crops is a step closer to being brought under control, thanks to the synthesis of a compound that tricks its eggs into hatching early. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Ornamental Sweet Potatoes Grow sweet potatoes for their leaves... |
Seasoned Cooking
November 2005
J. Sinclair |
Sweet Potatoes Those that think that sweet potatoes are to be saved for a sweet casserole served on Thanksgiving and not otherwise are really missing out!... Recipe: Turkey and Sweet Potato Salad... |
| National Gardening |
Seed Potatoes Small seed potatoes can be planted whole, but larger ones should first be cut into pieces with at least one eye or recessed dormant bud. |
Real Travel Adventures
October 2005
Bonnie & Bill Neely |
October 60th Anniversary of United Nations Established after World War II, October 24th marks the 60th anniversary of the United Nations and its historic achievements. So if you are in New York City, this is a tour you should not miss. |
Wired
August 21, 2007
Bob Parks |
Scramble Some DNA With the Bio-Rad Helios Gene Gun Labs worldwide use a helium-powered gun for everything from shooting nano sensors into mice and flu-fighting genes into chickens to injecting potato DNA into rice, which makes the crop more insect- resistant. |
Health
October 2007 |
Low Glycemic Index Foods According to a new study, people on diets that call for fiber-rich, complex-carb-loaded foods lost a little over two pounds more in five weeks, compared with people on low-fat or other types of diets. Here are some options. |
Seasoned Cooking
January 2008
Philip R. Gantt |
Potato, Crab and Shrimp Cakes Why not combine the concepts of potato pancakes and crab cakes to create a new dish? This recipe does just that, and the results are delicious. |
| National Gardening |
Colorado Potato Beetle If you see in your garden a small yellow beetle with black stripes over its wings and black spots just behind its head, say hello to the Colorado potato beetle. Potatoes are its first love, but this beetle will eagerly consume leaves of potato relatives eggplant, ground cherry, peppers, tomato, and tomatillo. |
Reason
March 2007
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Subsidy Creep American produce growers should get the same treatment as corn and wheat farmers if our farm policy is to be equitable, predictable and beyond challenge. |
Food Processing
July 2010 |
2010 R&D Team Winner: Reser's Fine Foods Inc. After sixty years and $700 million, Reser's Fine Foods Inc. has come a long way from the galvanized tub on a wood stove. But in many ways this fourth-generation family-owned company hearkens back to the farmhouse kitchen. |
