News on Potato Varieties and Seed

Joseph Pavek bred the popular potato variety Ranger Russet and developed much of the germplasm still used by breeders today, though he retired in 1999.

Europe's second-highest court on Friday overturned a decision by the European Commission to allow the cultivation and sale of a genetically modified potato developed by German chemicals group BASF.

McDonald's is being sucked into the vortex of bickering and conspiracy theories that has, unfortunately, become the debate over genetically engineered food products.

Under a bilateral deal with lead potato seed producer the Netherlands, the government has cleared four new potato seed varieties for use by local farmers.

Un grupo internacional de investigadores de 14 países, que incluye a especialistas del INTA, integraron la secuencia del genoma con un mapa genético. Permitirá identificar los genes del rendimiento y de la calidad.

On Thursday 7 November 2013 Agrico opened its annual varieties and seedlings show at its breeding and research farm, Agrico Research, in Bant.

Scientists with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service potato genetics program in Aberdeen, Idaho, were granted special permission to return to work during the US government shutdown, potentially preventing the loss of unique breeding material.

La empresa Ecuatoriana Inalproces SA fue elegida entre los diez finalistas del Changing Markets Award, competencia internacional organizada por la cooperación Alemana GIZ en nombre del Ministerio Federal de Cooperación Económica y Desarrollo (BMZ).

Ecuadorian chips company INALPROCES has been selected as one of the 10 finalists for the CHANGING MARKETS AWARD 2013, an initiative implemented on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

The Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) in Shimla, India's premier potato research institute, has evolved a new technology to prevent conversion of starch into glucose in low temperature conditions, like cold storages.

Línea de tiempo que incluye algunos de los eventos más importantes ocurridos en América y Europa durante el desarrollo de la papa genéticamente modificada.

Artículo que describe la enfermedad causada por el Virus de la Papa Y (PVY), explica cómo se desarrolla una papa transgénica resistente al virus y reseña las diferentes posiciones con respecto al uso de la ingeniería genética para modificar alimentos.

Productores de papa de la provincia de Ubaté, en Cundinamarca, le apuestan al uso de semillas certificadas y a la reducción del uso de agroquímicos para mejorar sus cosechas y proteger el medio ambiente.

Scientists in Uganda will soon start confined trials of genetically modified strains of Irish potato designed to be resistant to Phytophthora infestans, the fungus that causes potato blight, now devastating the crop in the west of the country.

A team of Argentinian scientists led by Fernando Bravo Almonacid, independent researcher of CONICET at the Institute for Research on Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology (INGEBI, CONICET-UBA), developed potato plants resistant to Potato Virus Y (P...

De Jong, a potato breeder and geneticist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, hopes that at least one of the plants will yield a best seller, but it’s far more likely that they’ll amount to compost.

Científicos del Conicet lograron desarrollar una variedad de papa transgénica que resiste mejor los ataques del Virus de la Papa Y, patógeno que afecta a mas del 50% de los cultivos y reduce su productividad entre 20 y 80% en los casos más severos.

De llegar a ser un éxito el proyecto de mejoramiento genético iniciado, los paperos ahorrarían no menos de 75 millones de dólares anuales que gastan en fungicidas para controlar el tizón tardío o gota.