It was at the tail end of last season that monitoring by Fight Against Blight (FAB) confirmed the EU46 strain had been found ...

Potatoes are a staple food for over 1.3 billion people. But despite their importance for global food security, breeding ...

By Duncan MboyahKenya and the International Potato Center (CIP) have signed a licensing agreement to transfer a biotech potato that is resistant to late blight disease.Dr. Eliud Kireger, the Director ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.

In collaboration with researchers from Wageningen University, the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Groß Lüsewitz, and the Xi’an Jiaotong University in China, the ...

"We're taking the technology that we developed here at Michigan State University to create late-blight-resistant potatoes," Douches said. "Late blight is the disease that caused the Irish potato ...

Douches was passing out potato chips made from his genetically engineered, late blight resistant potatoes. Douches’ Feed the Future Global Biotech Potato Partnership was one of the cancelled ...