March 2, 2021January 20, 2023 by Luigi Guarino

Breeding potatoes back in the day

Via William Whitson of Cultivariable on Facebook comes this nice quote about potato breeding:

It’s from an article by Drs P. Grun and J. Staub in a CIP publication from 1979: Report of the Planning Conference on the Exploration, Taxonomy and Maintenance of Potato Germ Plasm III.

I wonder how much things have changed?

LATER: Maybe this much?

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