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World Potato Congress (WPC) has a new webinar on March 21 at 8 a.m. MT, titled Deployment of Late Blight Resistant Biotech Potatoes in Africa.
Popular potato varieties in Africa have been bioengineered by inserting three late blight resistant genes from wild relatives of the potato. The biotech potatoes are completely resistant to this devastating disease in Africa. This has been observed over 22 experimental field trials during eight years in three African countries (Uganda, Nigeria and Kenya).
The webinar will be presented by Dr. Marc Ghislain and Dr. Eric Magembe with the International Potato Center.
