Interesting flowers from dihaploid potato plants grown in the field by the Douches lab at Michigan State University. Note the black/white petal flower! All photos taken by Kate Shaw at Michigan State University. Click the link below to see more images.
Image above: Badger COMMON’TATER August, 2022 cover, https://issuu.com/bctater/docs/standard_822
Read the Badger COMMON’TATER August, 2022 article here
Dihaploid potato clones (right table) derived from varieties and advanced breeding lines. These clones are parents such as used in the MSU diploid advanced breeding lines (left table).
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 or click on the image above.
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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