Location: Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory
Project Number: 8042-21000-283-05-A
Project Type: Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Sep 1, 2016
End Date: Aug 31, 2021
Objective:
To establish disease-free tissue cultures of promising advanced potato breeding
selections from the ARS Potato Breeding Program and produce nuclear seed for field evaluation.
Approach:
Seed tubers of promising advanced potato breeding selections will be aseptically
established in tissue culture and virus elimination protocols will be followed to
eradicate virus contamination. Disease-free plantlets will be grown in the
greenhouse and mini-tubers harvested for distribution as directed by the breeding
program.
