Plant Breeding & Variety Development

Why Tuberosum Technologies is pursuing what it calls the “Holy Grail” of potato breeding – true potato seed – and what the company hopes...

Scientists in the Netherlands use cisgenic modification to instil blight-resistance trait in potatoes. Researchers from Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands have just...

How new legislation is expected to provide increased opportunities in the Canadian potato industry. Earlier this year Canada became the newest country to revise its...

A new major genetic discovery could have great potential for the Canadian potato industry. There may be a new weapon in the fight against one...

Scientists at Agricultural and Agri-Food Canada’s Potato Research Centre hope to develop a handheld device that could one day tell farmers how their crops...

Agriculture and Agri-food Canada potato breeders unveil their choice of promising new varieties at their annual open house. Officials with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada’s potato...