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May 26, 2020 · 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. Read the original post X ...
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 6, 2022 · Introduction. Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the third most important food for human consumption behind wheat and rice, and among the top horticultural crops. 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. 2,3 In 2019, 17.5 ...
- 10.1080/21645698.2021.1993688
- 2021
- GM Crops Food. 2021; 12(1): 479-496.
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Feb 27, 2020 · February 27, 2020. Dr. Eric Magembe is committed to using the tools of genetic engineering to fight the devasating potato late blight disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Since the onset of his career, Magembe, a research scientist with the International Potato Center (CIP), has been curious to see how science can be translated into solutions.
Jun 3, 2016 · GMOs Important Weapon In Fight Against Global Hunger. This validates the need to keep GMOs as part of the global food supply as a means to help feed an ever-increasing world population. By Paul Schattenberg, Texas A&M College of Agriculture & Life Sciences June 3, 2016. 0. A National Academies study concluded GMOs pose no risk to human health.
Oct 20, 2022 · EU_41_A2 is a highly virulent clonal lineage 48 that has established in Sweden since 2016. Our results reveal similar field resistance to the reported resistance arising from stacking the same three R-genes in potato cultivars Desiree and Victoria in an African highland region with a mainly clonal 2_A2 of P. infestans. 49 We also found that the ...
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 ...
