Potato 2.0

“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 […]

200,000 lbs of Plover Russet

One of the challenges with potato variety development is learning how new varieties will perform when stored in the large piles used in commercial facilities. […]

Welcome Anil

Anil 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 […]

Potato Industry Recognizes Becky Eddy

Congratulations to Becky Eddy for her recent profile in the Wisconsin potato industry magazine, the Badger Common’Tater.

Congratulations to our Graduates!

Peyton 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 […]

Breeding For Late Blight Resistance

Potato late blight disease is caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. This is the disease that precipitated the Irish potato famine, and P. infestans […]

Annual Reports

Annual reports from the breeding program are now available for download from the Varieties page.

Plover Russet

At 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 […]

“Genomics Offers Insights for Potato Breeding”

New Publication on GxE

One research focus in the Endelman group is statistical analysis of the interaction between plant genotypes and the environment, or “GxE,” as it is called […]