Examining Potatoes’ Past Could Improve Spuds of the Future

Michigan State University
Written By Jenna McNamara

POSTED: Thursday, November 2, 2017

AUTHOR: Layne Cameron

CATEGORY: MSU Today

The old adage of looking to the past to understand the future certainly applies to improving potatoes. Examining the ancestors of the modern, North American cultivated potato has revealed a set of common genes and important genetic pathways that have helped spuds adapt over thousands of years.

Jenna McNamara
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