Abstract
Potato is the number one vegetable and fourth largest crop in the world, with an annual farmgate value of over $35 billion. In the United States, potato generates $27 billion at retail with about 50% of this coming from French fries. From a scientific standpoint, potato has long served as a model system and learning tool to the biotechnology research community, primarily due to the ease with which transgenes can be inserted and transgenic plants obtained via tissue culture. While traditional potato breeding is very difficult due to high genetic heterogeneity, nearly all potato cultivars including all major commercial varieties are readily amenable to transformation and regeneration. In fact, potato is one of the fastest and most efficient systems for adding and testing transgenes. Given the ease of manipulation and importance as crop, it is not surprising that a wealth of information has been obtained from laboratories around the world working with transgenic potatoes.
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Stark, D.M. (1998). Potatoes. In: Roller, S., Harlander, S. (eds) Genetic Modification in the Food Industry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5815-6_11
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