Research and Extension Areas:
- Make production recommendations on variety selection, planting population, irrigation, fertilization, and storage management of potatoes and vegetable crops
- Develop cloud-based machine learning tools to predict crop yield, quality, water status, and nitrogen status using in-season remote sensing imagery
- Investigate innovative technologies and practices to improve the resource use sustainability of vegetable cropping systems including potatoes, snap beans, sweet corn, peas, and dry edible beans
- Identify strategic practices to build resilience of potato production systems to a changing climate
Maine researchers work on climate-resistant potato
Maine researchers are on their way to creating a climate-resistant potato in order to maintain Maines’s ability to produce potato harvests.
February 22, 2022Potatoes in a pandemic
A Case Study on COVID‐19’s Impacts on America’s Favorite Tuber
December 9, 2020First successful True Potato Seed (TPS) trial of Solynta and Solidaridad in Mozambique shows potential
A first pilot using True Potato Seed (TPS) in Angonia District, Tete province in Mozambique, conducted by Solidaridad and Solynta shows great potential to drastically improve and innovate potato production in Mozambique. The potato crop …
October 16, 2020Research study provides basis for new processing strategies to mitigate acrylamide formation, improve chip quality
Potato chips are among the highest contributors to the dietary intake of acrylamide, a potent neurotoxin and likely carcinogen in heat-processed foods, says a Canadian research team, whose study on acrylamide formation in chips was …
July 12, 2020Second growth: A physiological potato problem induced by heat and drought
Second growth is a physiological potato problem induced by prolonged air temperatures above 28C and water stress. These 2 factors interact to limit the tuber growth rate, thus causing second growth. Inadequate soil moisture alone does …
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Awards
Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association Researcher of the Year 2021
Fruit and Vegetable 40 under 40 Class of 2020
American Society of Agronomy Excellence in Extension Award 2020