Periodic Reporting for period 2 - HISPOB (HISPOB- High Speed Potato Breeding: securing healthy food for the future)
Período documentado: 2016-11-01 hasta 2017-10-31
For the public in general it is important to obtain good potato varieties in a faster way. Varieties that have been grown in an environmental friendly manor. With HiSPoB all new developments leading to improved varieties can be introduced in a relatively short period. Late blight itself is a huge problem for farmers, only in the Eu the costs of combating late blight is estimated on €900M. It is expected that the introduction of potato varieties with a stacked resistance to Phytophthora alone, will already reduce pesticide use in potato with more than 60%.
The overall objective is to generate potato plants harbouring different resistance genes to Phytophthora in a single plant. This will be done with diploid potatoes and modern breeding techniques. Resistance sources will originate from different sources and are known to work in different ways. The plants with the different resistance genes will be grown later to demonstrate the effect of the stacked genes.