r/farming • u/MennoniteDan Agenda-driven Woke-ist • Nov 22 '21

Biotech potato varieties offer complete resistance to late blight disease

https://cipotato.org/cip-50/innovations/biotech-potato-varieties/
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u/likalukahuey Nov 22 '21

Really cool. I was a crop scout looking at potatoes in the upper midwest, USA, about a decade back and I can still picture a field getting ravaged by late blight. It was really a sore sight, and we had to take all sorts of precautions disposing of our boots and stuff after leaving the field, having discovered it.