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biotech & famine
"Torsten Brinch" wrote in message ... 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. How do you get the resistance into other varieties? Gordon |
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