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Nov 19, 2015 · Potato is the world's most important vegetable crop, with nearly 400 million tons produced worldwide every year, lending to stability in food supply and socioeconomic impact. In general, potato is an intensively managed crop, requiring irrigation, fertilization, and frequent pesticide applications in order to obtain the highest yields possible. Important traits are easy to find in wild ...
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- The History of Biotech Potatoes
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- Biotech Potato Around The Globe
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Biotech potatoes are not a new commodity in the U.S. In the mid- to late-1990s, NatureMark, a wholly owned subsidiary of Monsanto, marketed NewLeaf and NewLeaf Plus varieties with Colorado potato beetle and beetle plus leaf roll virus resistance, respectively. However, anti-biotechnology activism led to reduced interest among consumers, and the res...
Despite the advantage that biotechnology brings to food production in the U.S., market acceptance of bioengineered products is changing only slowly. Domestic and international regulations currently discourage the production of biotech foods, which further hinder progress in this area. For this reason, other means to deliver compelling traits are be...
In developing countries, access to elite varieties and effective pesticides that are needed to control disease can be limited. Farmers in these countries are eager to grow potato varieties requiring fewer inputs, and resistance to late blight is of primary importance. Currently, two projects are working internationally to commercialize late blight ...
Together with new breeding technologies including genome editing and genomics-assisted breeding, genetic modification remains a useful tool in the genetic improvement of potatoes. The 100-plus wild species relatives of potato provide a virtually endless source of traits that can be incorporated into elite varieties relatively easily and quickly. Th...
For these reasons, potato is arguably the crop that can benefit most by modern biotechnology. The benefits of biotech potato, such as limited gene flow to conventionally grown crops and weedy relatives, the opportunity for significant productivity and nutritional quality gains, and reductions in production cost and environmental impact, have ...
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Dec 25, 2018 · Halterman D, Guenthner J, Collinge S, Butler N, Douches D. Biotech potatoes in the 21st century: 20 years since the first biotech potato. Am J Potato Res. 2016; 93:1–20. 10.1007/s12230-015-9485-1 [Google Scholar]
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Nov 19, 2015 · The biotech potatoes comm ercialized in the mid-199 0s. (T oevs et al. 2011b) were a technological success and provid-. ed benefits to prod ucers, consum ers, and the environm ent, but. anti-GMO ...
Abstract. From the 16th century Andean highlands to 20th century Europe, biotechnology has transformed potato to ‘pomato’ and ‘topato’ (Melchers et al. 1978). The potato ( Solarium tuberosum L.) is the most important non-cereal world food crop, and is next only to rice, wheat and corn as a major crop in terms of total food production.
