Selecting for Success: The Battle with Potato Virus Y
Developing a potato cultivar that is resistant to both Potato Virus Y (PVY) and potato cyst nematodes.
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Selecting for Success: What’s the Buzz about Potato Pollinations?
Research collecting potato pollen for developing varieties resistant to nematodes.
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Selecting for Success: Thousands of Clones Go into the Ground
Thousands of different clones are grown and evaluated each year through potato breeding programs.
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Selecting for Success: Growing Potatoes in “Muck-nificent” Soil
One of the environments the Cornell potato breeding program uses to test elite clones are muck fields in the northern part of New York.
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Selecting for Success: Good Things Come from Small Potatoes
Potato breeding programs use smaller tubers to grow potatoes in the field the following year.
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Selecting for Success: Digging up Weeds, Rocks, Potatoes, Oh My!
Similar to farmers picking out rocks from their fields over decades and still finding more, many potato fields have an endless supply of rocks.
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Selecting for Success: Potato Harvest is like a Box of Chocolates
A potato breeder never truly knows what they’ll get from a cross until the first harvest in the field.
