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The University of Maine (UMaine) has devoted valuable agricultural research to studying how to improve potato crops, a central element of the state’s agricultural economy.
Over the past year, the focus of the program’s mission has ramped up with one particular goal in mind: make potatoes that are resistant to climate change.
UMaine Professor Gregory Porter is the lead investigator for the school’s potato breeding program, which works on projects from improving marketing opportunities for growers to developing potatoes that are more resistant to diseases like potato virus Y.
UMaine received a total of $510,104 to conduct research on potato breeding in Maine through the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
For more information, read the UMaine news article.
