For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Potatoes are grown for their attractive market prices. However, this lucrative investment ...

Common scab is a disease that causes scaly, scab-like lesions on potatoes. While the presence of scabs doesn't impact safe consumption for humans, they pose an economic threat to growers.

This scab-like damage is potato scab, a disease caused by a soil borne bacteria. The bacteria can live on organic material in the soil and infects young developing potato tubers through the pores ...