TY - JOUR
T1 - Potato in the age of biotechnology
AU - Mullins, Ewen
AU - Milbourne, Dan
AU - Petti, Carlo
AU - Doyle-Prestwich, Barbara M.
AU - Meade, Conor
PY - 2006/5
Y1 - 2006/5
N2 - Biotechnology-based tools are now widely used to enhance and expand the traditional remit of potato in food production. By modifying its functionality, the capacity of the potato to produce, for example, therapeutic or industrial compounds is now a reality, and its ability to resist disease can also be radically improved. Two developments have been crucial to expanding the role of potato: the recent advances in the fields of structural and functional potato genomics and the ability to integrate genes of interest into the potato genome. In this review we discuss how both developments have diversified the remit of this crop.
AB - Biotechnology-based tools are now widely used to enhance and expand the traditional remit of potato in food production. By modifying its functionality, the capacity of the potato to produce, for example, therapeutic or industrial compounds is now a reality, and its ability to resist disease can also be radically improved. Two developments have been crucial to expanding the role of potato: the recent advances in the fields of structural and functional potato genomics and the ability to integrate genes of interest into the potato genome. In this review we discuss how both developments have diversified the remit of this crop.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33646351748
U2 - 10.1016/j.tplants.2006.03.002
DO - 10.1016/j.tplants.2006.03.002
M3 - Review article
C2 - 16621672
AN - SCOPUS:33646351748
SN - 1360-1385
VL - 11
SP - 254
EP - 260
JO - Trends in Plant Science
JF - Trends in Plant Science
IS - 5
ER -