International Potato Center
‘It will be a wonderful day when these potatoes get into the hands of farmers’: Uganda develops genetically engineered disease-resistant version of the country’s most important crop
Late potato blight is the most destructive potato disease in the world costing developing countries USD 10 billion every year. This CIP@50 story digs into a new rapid-fire approach to potato breeding that makes farmer-favorite ...
Breeding to battle potato late blight disease in Uganda: What once took 46 years, now takes just a few with biotechnology
[A new variety of] potato— named 3R potato— could help protect farming families… in Uganda and possibly elsewhere in Africa ...
GMO blight-resistant potato expected to help over 300,000 farmers in Uganda cut pesticide use, boost yields
Stakeholders working within the potato sector in Uganda are confident about the wide adoption of a new bioengineered late blight ...
Video: How disease-resistant GMO potatoes could help Uganda’s potato farmers reduce pesticide spraying
This video describes advances by the International Potato Center and the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) of Uganda to develop ...
Genebanks: Preserving plant genetic diversity to fight hunger and cope with climate change
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 75 percent of plant genetic diversity was lost in the last century ...
Uganda: Successful field trial of blight-resistant GMO potato
In Uganda, about 300,000 smallholder households grow potatoes for their subsistence living and for income. Loss due to late blight ...
