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NL: Agrico research
The potato fields at Argico Research
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About Us
Agrico Research is the breeding and research station of the co-operative Agrico. Its primary goal is the development of new potato varieties that can be produced in an economically profitable and environmentally safe way.
Also, agronomic research is performed in order to be able to give a good practical advice for the new varieties. Facilities include 2000 m2 of glasshouses for crossings and production of the first generation clones from true potato seed. Furthermore, Agrico Research has laboratory facilities for screening for cooking and processing quality, disease resistance and for the application of DNA-marker technology.
Of the 96 ha of arable land available, each season approximately 16 ha are used as experimental fields. Another 7 hectares of experimental fields are hired at other locations in the Netherlands.
Argico Research and Eu-Sol
Agrico Research is participating mainly in WP 3.4 and partly in 3.6 of the EU-SOL project.
In WP 3.4 we are focused on phenotyping of diversity in potato for which were are developing 15 segregating diploid potato populations. The parents of these populations have been selected on the basis of contrast for health related compounds, mostly carotenoids, and important quality traits, e.g. cold sweetening resistance, after cooking darkening and dormancy period. Since sound agronomic phenotyping will be a basis, agronomic traits such as yield, dry matter production, regularity of size and shape, growth cracks and internal defects will be measured as well.
The first phenotyping of populations will be finished in fall 2008. Then we will start checking for co-segregations of traits and candidate gene markers from published resources or that results from the work of academic groups within EU-SOL.
Staff (working on EU-SOL)
- Dr. Sjefke Allefs, director, breeder and principal investigator
- Dr. Marielle Muskens, research scientist and breeder
- Ing. Maarten Vossen, technician for field studies
- Ing. Anne Sikkema, technician molecular biology
- Ing. Jack Gros, technician molecular biology
- Ing. Annemarie Nicolaas, technician molecular biology
