If possible, in the year before you plant potatoes, plant a cover crop to improve the soil and the potato production.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

But the researchers did much of their work with a phureja, a kind of a potato that has only one copy.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

Jan Low with the International Potato Center, a research organization, says the sweet potato needs a better image in Africa.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

But late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

But the researchers did much of their work with a phureja a kind of a potato that has only one copy.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

But Mr.Gustafson sees a better chance for the efforts to increase the popularity of the orange sweet potato in Africa.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

The words hot potato,for example, give you no idea at all to the meaning of the expression,hot potato.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

After the potato plants appear, organic mulch can be spread around to hold moisture, help suppress weed growth and cool the soil.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

So the questions must be dealt with carefully, the same way you would handle any other hot potato.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

The potato genome is not yet final but it shows the order of ninety-five percent of the genes.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

Genes direct the making of proteins which do much of the work in building an organism, whether a person or a potato.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

That disease led to starvation in Ireland from potato shortages in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

The project is the work of a team from fourteen countries, the Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

Potato shortages caused at least one million deaths and a wave of Irish immigration to America.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

He is leaving for college. Cowboy Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Mr.and Mrs.Potato Head and all his other toys end up at a day care center.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

He noted that a baked potato is not high in fat, but it becomes fatty when people add sour cream and butter to it.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

"The sort of foundation product that we serve is lefse, this Norwegian potato flatbread, and I grew up eating that every year at Christmastime.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

His diet during his trips includes chocolate candies,nuts, potato chips,cookies, dried beef and energy bars.

VOA: special.2011.03.23

Robert Armstrong, an artist from California, developed the term couch potato in nineteen seventy-six.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

A potato has twelve chromosomes and about eight hundred forty million base pairs.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

The potato genome shows the order of ninety-five percent of the genetic material.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

But potato breeders currently spend ten to twelve years developing new kinds.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

Richard Veilleux, a professor at Virginia Tech, provided that variety of potato.

VOA: special.2009.10.20