Plant Breeding & Variety Development

By manipulating RNA it can allow potato yield to dramatically increase and also improve drought tolerance, a group of scientists from the University of...

Here is your list of the newest and most innovative potato varieties available for Canadian commercial potato growers this season.  With planting season just around...

New potato varieties with stacked genes in them are showing resistance to Colorado potato beetles (CPB), a study by scientists at Nigde Omer Halisdemir...

It has been discovered that α-solanine, a toxic compound found in potato plants, is derived from the bitter-tasting α-tomatine, which is found in tomato...

Europlant, a German company, has launched two new low carb potato varieties, the mild, mainly firm-cooking Coronada, which is branded as Linella, and the...

What are diploid potatoes and why are breeders and processors so interested in them? Diploid potato breeding, and producing varieties from true potato seed, has...