Developing early maturing and stress-tolerant potato varieties for Asia. Project profile.

Climate change is increasingly threatening food security throughout the developing world, and there is urgent need for new, stress-tolerant varieties of major crops like potato. This project focuses on breeding early-maturing, stresstolerant potato varieties to boost productivity and incomes for far...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: International Potato Center
Format: Brochure
Language:Inglés
Published: International Potato Center 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/102188
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Summary:Climate change is increasingly threatening food security throughout the developing world, and there is urgent need for new, stress-tolerant varieties of major crops like potato. This project focuses on breeding early-maturing, stresstolerant potato varieties to boost productivity and incomes for farmers across Central and East Asia.