When potato tubers are exposed to light, they turn green and increase glycoalkaloid production.

In potato tubers, 30-80% of the solanine develops in and close to the skin.

Commonly infected plants include potato tubers, bulbs of vegetables, and ornamental crops.

Mashed sweet potato tubers are used similarly throughout the world.

Mabinlin-2 has been expressed in transgenic potato tubers, but no explicit results have been reported yet.

The loss in yield of potato tubers may reach 25% in heavy infestations.

At least four other species of Streptomyces also cause diseases on potato tubers.

S. ipomoea causes a similar disease on sweet potato tubers.

There are also other species of Streptomyces found in scab lesions on potato tubers that do not disease.

Their life cycle takes place inside potato tubers where they eat starch grains.