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GM potatoes expelled from Andes

Peruvians decide to ban transgenic crop from the potato homeland.

This Thursday, the government of Cusco, a region in the Peruvian Andes, is scheduled to ban all genetically modified (GM) varieties of potato, according to the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The area was the birthplace of many varieties of spud, and is still home to thousands of kinds of potato, from the notoriously hard to peel q'achun waq'achi to the dark grey amakjaya.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on July 19, 2007 12:01 AM |

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"CIP announced the creation of a male-sterile potato that is resistant to the pest tuber moth (Phthorimaea operculella)".My comment is just to make clear that the indicated PTM resistant cv. was created on a several years bred potato variety named Revolucion, widely grown in Peru. Because its male-sterile characteristic, this potato cultivar-as indicated by Ghislain- was choosen several years ago by Dr. H. Atkinson to develop nematode resistant potato cultivars.

Posted by: Javier Franco Ponce | July 23, 2007 05:51 PM

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