Breeding for resilience: enhancing multi-stress tolerance in crops

Potato is the fourth most important food crop worldwide. Its cultivation is threatened by many pests and diseases as well as abiotic stresses. At IHAR-PIB, we have expertise and experience in pre-breeding and breeding activities exploiting potato's wild relatives, gene and quantitative trait loci mapping, marker-assisted selection and gene pyramiding. We focus on late blight resistance, resistance to viruses, fungi and abiotic stresses such a drought stress.

We are looking for project cooperation which would enable research related to the breeding for multiple-stress tolerance in potato and potato genetics. We are working with unique potato germplasm collection preserved within Polish Gene Bank and we would like to exploit it further in breeding resilient potato cultivars.