Precision breeding creates super spud

A new, fast breeding technique has created a potato that can exclusively produce a nutritional starch important in food manufacturing and paper and thread production.

Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology:

http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2009/12/super-potato.jsp

Germany: Tilling (Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes) – a rapid mutation breeding program that switched off one of two producing genes, allowing the potato to produce only the starch amylopectin

GNTIS note: I am skeptical about their use of the term ‘natural’ for this plant breeding technique, and just because something is natural does that make it OK?