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Download PDF Could blight-resistant, bruise-free, non-browning Maris Piper potatoes be close to market? CPM visits a trial and discovers an opportunity for growers. It’s simply not technically feasible to cross in durable blight resistance to a variety like Maris Piper.” By Tom Allen-Stevens Prof Jonathan Jones takes a step back and casts his eye carefully over the trial plots of potatoes in front of him. “It looks like we’ve succeeded with the technical challenge. It’s the commercial challenge we now face,” he says. He and his team of scientists from The Sainsbury Laboratory, based in Norwich, have come to NIAB at Cambridge to view a field trial of Piper Plus. In almost every respect this variety is identical to Maris Piper, the most commonly grown potato in the UK. Line 27 looks the most promising in early August of the plots of the first Piper Plus potatoes to be taken to yield. Except Piper Plus potatoes are resistant to late blight, to bruising and have lower levels of asparagine and reducing sugars, which decreases the potential formation of acrylamide. Growers are now being sought for a small-scale trial of this new cultivar, and while you’d have thought its attributes would…
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