If it reaches the potato tubers, they can rot both in the ground and during storage. The fungus spreads through spores, which ...

a family of six could grow enough potatoes to feed them for a year. In 1845, a fungus affecting the potato crop arrived in Ireland. The potato fungus quickly swept across the whole country.

The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a bid by the Prince Edward Island Potato Board to overturn a 2021 decision by the federal agriculture minister to declare the entire province as “a place ...