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biotech & famine
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:03:23 GMT, "Gordon Couger"
wrote: "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? How did you get into AWN86514-2, you think? However, how about dealing with that stupid op-ed piece you posted first? It bloody claimed that "without biotechnology, we may not ever breed a potato that isn't vulnerable [to late blight]" While conventional breeders have already bred potatoes with high late blight resistance for years! Research - ARS - Dennis L. Corsini and Joseph Pavek USDA University of Idaho, R&E Center Aberdeen, ID 83210 .. We are devoting a great deal of our resources to late blight resistance and have identified two selections that have high levels of foliar and tuber blight resistance that will reduce the need for applying fungicides weekly during the growing season. The first, AWN86514-2, has been released as late blight resistant germplasm for breeders. The other, A90586-11, has high yields with tuber type and quality suited for french-fry processing, and we are continuing seed multiplication and testing of it. .. We are [also] testing transgenic Russet Burbank and Ranger Russet developed by public programs for blackspot and virus resistance, and transgenic Lenape for reduced glycoalkaloids. We have seen positive results for the blackspot resistance and reduced glycoalkaloid traits, however plant and tuber abnormalities are major problems with this material. snip |
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