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As a result, only a very small amount of acreage has been devoted to it so far. The company worked with farmers to grow approximately 6,000 acres of the potato to be sold in 2017. By comparison, there were over 955,000 acres of potatoes planted in the U.S. in 2015. Why would farmers choose to grow genetically modified potatoes?
Jan 6, 2022 · Potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) is the third most important crop worldwide and a staple food for many people worldwide. Genetically, it poses many challenges for traditional breeding due to its autotetraploid nature and its tendency toward inbreeding depression. Breeding programs have focused on productivity, nutritional quality, and disease ...
- 10.1080/21645698.2021.1993688
- 2021
- GM Crops Food. 2021; 12(1): 479-496.
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May 18, 2018 · GM Potato Can Help Cut Pesticide Use by Up to 90 Percent, Study Shows. A potato variety genetically engineered to resist potato blight can help reduce the use of chemical fungicides by up to 90 percent, according to a new study - drastically reducing the environmental impact of potato farming. Potato blight, caused by a water mould called ...
Jan 9, 2015 · This puts a new spin on the definition of a genetically modified (GM) crop, because unlike most commercialized biotech crops, it contains only trace amounts of foreign DNA (Nat. Biotechnol. 30 ...
- Emily Waltz
- 2015
Dec 23, 2022 · To date, several genetically modified (GM) potato cultivars have been commercialized. The first GM varieties, resistant to Colorado potato beetle and PLRV (NewLeaf™, NewLeaf Plus™), were developed by Monsanto ® in the late 1990s (Lawson et al. 2001 ), but their cultivation was abandoned after a few years (reviewed in Hameed et al. 2018 ).
- 10.1007/s00425-022-04054-3
- 2023
- Planta. 2023; 257(1): 25.
A genetically modified potato is a potato that has had its genes modified, using genetic engineering. Goals of modification include introducing pest resistance, tweaking the amounts of certain chemicals produced by the plant, and to prevent browning or bruising of the tubers. Varieties modified to produce large amounts of starches may be ...
Aug 28, 2015 · The potatoes must also be approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which regulates genetically modified organisms. The company said they expected those approvals within a year. Commercial planting would likely begin in 2017, with the second generation potatoes available to consumers that fall.
