Check out the latest news and articles.
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Farewell to Peyton and Joao
Posted on April 18, 2022Spring can be bittersweet in our potato breeding program. On the one hand, we are preparing seed for planting, and the start of the field […]
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Single Plant Selection
Posted on November 10, 2021Like most potato breeding programs, the first year of field selection at UW-Madison is conducted on single plants. Although single plants are not very reliable […]
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Aerial imaging
Posted on October 27, 2021Two years ago, we purchased a drone outfitted with a multispectral camera, and postdoc Filipe Matias collected the first set of aerial images of our […]
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Potato 2.0
Posted on March 2, 2021“Potato 2.0” is a worldwide movement to develop diploid, inbred lines of potato, which would revolutionize the way potato varieties are bred and disseminated. UW-Madison […]
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200,000 lbs of Plover Russet
Posted on November 2, 2020One of the challenges with potato variety development is learning how new varieties will perform when stored in the large piles used in commercial facilities. […]
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Welcome Anil
Posted onAnil Adhikari joined our group this summer, after completing his PhD in wheat breeding at Texas A&M University. Anil gained some practical experience with the […]
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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.