Watch the two newest videos posted on YouTube! Dr. Dave Douches’ research group at Michigan State University was excited to see some nice diploids in their trials this year, some even better than the tetraploids! This video shows the Douches group harvesting one of their replicated diploid agronomic trial plots using their research plot harvester. Watch the entire video to see all steps in the process.
The Potato 2.0 project is now on YouTube. Subscribe to the channel here.
Endelman lab (University of Wisconsin-Madison) members, Lin Song, PhD student in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics, and Dr. Maria Caraza-Harter, Postdoctoral Research Associate, describe the lab’s summer 2021 diploid potato field trial.
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Dr. Grant Porter and Dr. Han Tan answer questions about the Potato 2.0 project for News Center Maine. Click here to read the full article and watch their interview.
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Potato innovation has stagnated for decades. Sexual reproduction might get it unstuck. This article is written by Potato 2.0 advisory committee member Peter Imle and featured in the MIT technology Review. Read the article here or you can download the article here.
Over 300 diploid potato varieties were evaluated in a small-plot yield trial at the University of Wisconsin Hancock Agricultural Research Station (HARS).
Potatoes USA features the Potato 2.0 project and answers frequently asked questions about the project. Check out the video here.
In June and July, we have been extracting dihaploids from field-grown plants.