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Potato Industry Recognizes Becky Eddy
Posted on May 9, 2020Congratulations to Becky Eddy for her recent profile in the Wisconsin potato industry magazine, the Badger Common’Tater.
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Congratulations to our Graduates!
Posted onPeyton Sorensen (B.S. Horticulture) has worked in the lab as an undergrad for several years and will continue as an MS student, researching marker-assisted selection […]
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Breeding For Late Blight Resistance
Posted on February 12, 2020Potato late blight disease is caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. This is the disease that precipitated the Irish potato famine, and P. infestans […]
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Annual Reports
Posted on January 17, 2020Annual reports from the breeding program are now available for download from the Varieties page.
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Plover Russet
Posted on January 2, 2020At the October 2019 meeting of the SpudPro committee, our new variety W9133-1rus was named Plover Russet! Thank you to Joe Kertzman for the following […]
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“Genomics Offers Insights for Potato Breeding”
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New Publication on GxE
Posted on February 14, 2019One research focus in the Endelman group is statistical analysis of the interaction between plant genotypes and the environment, or “GxE,” as it is called […]
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Lin Song and Diploid Breeding
Posted on November 13, 2018Lin Song joined the Endelman Lab in 2018 as a new MS student, after completing her BS degree at UC Davis. She is already busy […]
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Dr. Cari Schmitz Carley
Posted on May 13, 2018Congratulations to lab member Cari Schmitz Carley on her successful PhD thesis defense! Cari made several contributions to advance genomics-assisted breeding for potato, including developing […]
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Genomic selection in potato is here
Posted on May 10, 2018For the past five years, the Endelman lab has been working toward the goal of implementing genomic selection for potato breeding, and it is finally […]