News on Potato Varieties and Seed

A dozen years after a customer revolt forced Monsanto to ditch its genetically engineered potato, an Idaho company aims to resurrect high-tech spuds.

El INIAP y CIP realizarán la clausura del primer curso de aeroponia para la obtención de semillas de papa de calidad en el Ecuador. El evento se realizará el miércoles 22 de mayo, en la Estación Santa Catalina del INIAP, al sur de Quito.

Interest in natural products has grown markedly in recent years. This has been reflected in a number of ways in new product activity, such as the use of all natural colors, flavors and other raw materials and in the growing use of GMO-free labeling.

The J.R Simplot Company has petitioned the USDA to deregulate their new genetically engineered Innate™ Potatoes and the public comment period has just been opened up on that petition.

The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Neiker-Tecnalia, has created four new potato clones which are characterised by their high antioxidant content, their good production both in size and number of tubers, as well as by their ...

Son 56 recetas registradas por alumnos de gastronomía del Instituto Continental de la ciudad de Huancayo, y forma parte del proyecto de recuperación y conservación de la biodiversidad de papas nativas.

In the late 1960s, researchers from the US Department of Agriculture, Penn State University, and the Wise Potato Chip Company teamed up breed a very special potato, which they named the Lenape.

The potato (Irish) that has fed the people of southwestern Uganda (Kabale) for generations is being threatened by several pests and diseases, including the potato bacterial wilt.

A fin de garantizar la seguridad alimentaria del pueblo, el Instituto Nicaragüense de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), está en proceso de validación y estudio de nuevas variedades de semilla para la siembra de papa.

Una invitación a participar en una alianza para el monitoreo de la diversidad genética de las papas nativas, denominada “Iniciativa Chirapaq La Ruta del Arcoiris”, que está encabezando el Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), formuló Stef De Haan, inv...

Whole Foods Market announced today at Natural Products Expo West that, by 2018, all products in its U.S. and Canadian stores must be labeled to indicate if they contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

An international team of scientists headed by Wageningen University has discovered a genetic mechanism which allows potato plants to develop tubers during the long days of spring and summer in northern latitudes.

Boulder Canyon Natural Foods®, a leading natural snack food manufacturer is proud to announce that it has successfully enrolled its kettle-cooked potato chips in the Non-GMO Project

The Irish Lumper potato has been cultivated once more by County Antrim farmer Michael McKillop who has a keen interest in history.

Today Colorado’s Jared Polis will announce, outside a reborn organic retail store in Boulder, that he is introducing a federal bill in Congress to mandate the labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms in all 50 states.

Potato breeding developments being researched by graduate students in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences of the University of Maine look to save the future of Maine’s iconic crop.

A University of Idaho researcher says he's optimistic efforts to develop genetically modified potatoes will resurface.

The ever changing story of Europe's relationship with biotechnology took another twist recently when the giant German chemical firm BASF announced it was halting the development of all its GM potato varieties in Europe.