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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...
Nov 29, 2019 · A genetically modified potato with improved tuber quality and resistance to the devastating disease late blight has progressed successfully through the latest stage of trials.
May 26, 2020 · … Together with new breeding technologies …. genetic modification remains a useful tool in the genetic improvement of potatoes. The 100-plus wild species relatives of potato provide a virtually...
May 28, 2024 · Thankfully, those days could soon be over, as British scientists are working on a ‘super spud’ that cooks as fast as pasta and rice.
Jan 6, 2022 · These studies were key to the development of genetically modified potatoes with reduced acrylamide. The first generation Innate® potatoes were developed from cv. Russet Burbank by reducing Asn1 expression through RNAi, using tuber-specific expression promoters.
- 10.1080/21645698.2021.1993688
- 2021
- GM Crops Food. 2021; 12(1): 479-496.
May 18, 2018 · 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.
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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.
