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Old 25-08-2003, 10:22 AM
Torsten Brinch
 
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 07:31:01 GMT, "Gordon Couger"
wrote:

[quoting:]
Saving the Potato

Agweb.com
August 21, 2003
by Dean Kleckner

..
Without biotechnology, we may not ever breed a potato that isn't
vulnerable to fungal epidemics, triggering the starvation that killed
millions of people in the past.


Bwahahahaha.

POTATO OFFERS RESISTANCE TO LATE BLIGHT DISEASE
Agnet Dec 17, December 17, 1998 USDA - ARS News Service Aberdeen,
Idaho.

A new potato with resistance to the world’s worst potato disease is
now available to plant breeders. "This potato is highly resistant to
attack by late blight, the disease that caused the Irish POTATO famine
of the 1840s," said plant pathologist Dennis L. Corsini with the
Agricultural Research Service in Aberdeen, Idaho. He and colleagues at
Aberdeen and at Prosser, Wash., developed the new spud, known as
AWN86514-2. .. The new potato’s parents are a french-fry variety -
Ranger Russet, developed by Pavek - and a potato selected from
Poland’s POTATO breeding institute. ARS released the new potato in
collaboration with the agricultural experiment stations of Oregon,
Idaho and Washington.


 
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