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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 remains one of the most significant pathogens for global potato production. Check out this recent article in the Wisconsin potato industry magazine about our efforts to breed for late blight…

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

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 article, which appeared in the WPVGA Badger Common’Tater:

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 in the plant breeding and genetics literature. This important topic has implications for the design of field experiments, the allocation of resources over time and space, and the construction of…

Lin Song joined the Endelman Lab in 2018 as a new MS student, after completing her BS degree at UC Davis. She is already busy laying the foundation for our diploid potato breeding program. At present, commercial potato varieties and elite breeding stocks are heterozygous, autotetraploid clones maintained in vitro. Although there are exciting new…