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May 26, 2020 · Agricultural science and organic farming: Time to change our trajectory; Viewpoint: Scientific American’s credibility crash; Infographic: 5 popular foods genetically modified by humans–before GMOs
Introduction. Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the third most important food for human consumption behind wheat and rice, and among the top horticultural crops.Citation 1 Two thirds of the annual yield is marketed fresh, while the remainder is processed for snack and other industrial food products, including animal feed, adhesives, pharmaceuticals, wood, and textile commodities.
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In 2014, a team of British scientists published a paper about three-year field trial showing that another genetically modified version of the Désirée cultivar can resist infection after exposure to late blight, one of the most serious diseases of potatoes.
Jan 10, 2022 · Since the first report on a CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in potato in 2015 (Wang et al., 2015), this system has been applied in number of basic research studies and in improving important traits in potato, including its nutritional quality, modification of tuber starch composition, post-harvest quality enhancement, biotic stress ...
Dec 5, 2019 · The field trials follow successful lab experiments to modify Maris Piper potatoes with late blight resistance genes from wild relatives of potato called Solanum americanum and Solanum venturii. To ...
Feb 17, 2014 · British scientists have developed genetically modified potatoes that are resistant to the vegetable's biggest threat - blight. A three-year trial has shown that these potatoes can thrive...
food waste each year. 6 The GMO Potato: from Farm to Plate OES GMOs allow farmers to grow more with less resources.3 In a single year, GMOs allowed farmers to use 59.7M fewer acres of land to grow the same amount of food.4 GM potatoes are SAFE to eat and SUSTAINABLE to produce. GM potatoes reduce pesticides with late blight disease protection that
