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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. They developed this potato for blight resistance by inserting a gene (Rpi-vnt1.1), into ...
Feb 17, 2014 · By Matt McGrath. Environment correspondent, BBC News. British scientists have developed genetically modified potatoes that are resistant to the vegetable's biggest threat - blight. A...
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160 Years Later, Scientists Grow a GM Potato That Could Have Prevented the Irish Potato Famine. Genetically modified potatoes resistant to potato blight were designed in Ireland
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 ...
Apr 9, 2019 · It was spearheaded by one man: Dr. Benjamin Heyne, a Scottish missionary and naturalist. In a 1799 letter, he wrote of his desire to use potatoes to prevent the “lamentable effects which have too...
Mar 30, 2023 · After mustard, India is set to begin trials of two more genetically modified (GM) food crops — bananas and potatoes — possibly ushering in a new era of biotech-enhanced farming.
