Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AAFC)

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Among a wide range of other activities - Agriculture and Agrifood Canada supports the Canadian Potato Industry with market information and research.

The Potato Research Centre is one of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's network of 19 research centres.

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五月 02, 2010

Potato Research Centre in Fredericton gets lab exansion for potato gene repository

The Potato Gene Repository at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Potato Research Centre in Fredericton is about to enter a new era with a $500,000 lab expansion. What is a potato gene repository? Think of it as a bank where more than 150 variet...

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四月 22, 2010

David de Koeyer to study potato blight in Peru

A New Brunswick potato scientist will travel to Peru this month in an effort to help Canadian tubers fight blight.Dr. David De Koeyer, who works at the Potato Research Centre in Fredericton, has spent his professional life studying spuds.He's heading t...

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Fredericton Potato Research Centre potato display

二月 19, 2010

New Canadian Reds on display at Fredericton Potato Research Centre

On February 17, at the Potato Research Centre in Fredericton, experimental potato selections were unveiled, including a number of red skins. Red skinned potatoes are hot thanks in part to a consumer and restaurant industry trend toward potatoes that ca...

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三月 17, 2009

Potato blights develop fungicide resistance

Leaf samples taken last summer by provincial potato specialists and ag chem firm Bayer CropScience throughout Canada show "widespread"presence of fungi that have mutated to resist the fungicides used most often to control them.The sampling pr...

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