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Innate Potatoes

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​Combining Simplot’s extensive experience in agriculture with the latest in biotechnology, the Simplot Plant Sciences team developed Innate™ technology, an innovative biotechnology platform for improving potatoes.

This new biotechnology process results in tangible improvements in potatoes and other crops, leading to better foods and ultimately, increased sustainability. These efforts all focus on improvements within the potato’s own species. They simply work on continuous improvements by enhancing or suppressing specific traits within a potato to provide better yield, storage, taste and nutrition.

​Simplot’s new Innate™ plant biotechnology process will improve the marketability and health aspects of potatoes, resulting in benefits to consumers, potato processors, growers, and the environment. These potatoes are not plant pests, pose no harm to other species, and grow just like conventional potatoes.

​Characteristics of Innate™ Potatoes

  • No new allergens - Innate™ potatoes contain DNA from wild and cultivated potatoes.
  • Low risk of cross pollination - Commercial potatoes are grown from tubers, not seed. In addition, many commercial potatoes are either sterile or not sexually compatible with wild potatoes. Wild potatoes are rare and flowers are not frequented by honeybees due to a lack of nectar.
  • Low weediness potential - Innate™ potatoes are grown just like other cultivated potatoes. Since they are a rotational crop susceptible to temperature fluctuations, potatoes typically do not survive outside cultivated fields.
  • No adverse impact to human health, other species or the environment - Innate™ potatoes contain potato DNA and are grown just like regular, cultivated potatoes with no need for special pesticides or fertilizers.
  • Same taste and growing characteristics - Innate™ potatoes have the same taste and growth characteristics as their commercially grown counterparts since only the natural traits for lower asparagine, lower black spot bruise and lower reducing sugars were optimized.
Variety names Innate Potatoes

Several of the potato varieties of the first generation Innate potatoes have received proprietary variety names:
  • 'Cultivate' - Innate Russet Burbank (first generation)
  • 'Generate' - Innate Ranger Russet (first generation)
  • 'Accelerate' - Innate Atlantic (first generation)
  • 'Invigorate' - Innate Snowden (first generation)


Second Generation Innate® Potatoes

Second generation Innate® potatoes beneficial traits of relevance to potato growers, processors and consumers:

  • Protection against the late blight pathogen
  • Reduced bruising and black spot
  • Reduced asparagine, which contributes to reduced acrylamide in cooked potatoes
  • Lower reducing sugars, which further contributes to reduced acrylamide while enhancing cold storage capability

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J.R. Simplot partners with Iden Biotechnology in a search for genes to enhance nutritional properties of the potato
十一月 18, 2017

J.R. Simplot partners with Iden Biotechnology in a search for genes to enhance nutritional properties of the potato

Iden Biotechnology - a Spanish biotechnology company - and J.R. Simplot Company, a potato processor and developer and marketer of Innate® Potatoes, recently entered into an agreement to explore the potential for nutritional enrichment of the potato.
Innate® Second Generation Potato Receives Approval in Canada
八月 03, 2017

Second Generation Innate® Potatoes Receive Approval in Canada

Health Canada and Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) have completed the food, feed, and environmental safety assessments of the J.R. Simplot Company’s second generation of Innate® potatoes. The authorizations enable the potatoes to be imported, planted, and sold in Canada.
Simplot wants to sell food products from GM Potatoes in Australia and New Zealand
七月 06, 2017

Simplot wants to sell food products from GM Potatoes in Australia and New Zealand

JR Simplot has applied at FSANZ for approval to export genetically modified potato products into Australia and New Zealand. Unclear is what type of products this is about, but unprocessed potatoes can not be imported.
Simplot postpones commercial introduction of Innate GMO potatoes in Canada
五月 30, 2017

Simplot postpones commercial introduction of Innate GMO potatoes in Canada

Simplot Plant Sciences will not commercially launch its Innate GMO potatoes in Canada this year, despite regulatory approval and interest among potato farmers to grow these new potatoes