How To Grow Potatoes

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from voaspecialenglish.com Scientists now have a genetic map of the potato. The project is the work of a team from fourteen countries, the Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium. Potatoes are one of the world's leading food crops. But potato breeders currently spend ten to twelve years developing new kinds. Now they will be able to locate genes for any desired trait, improving quality, nutritional value and disease resistance. A genome ...