Building a Diploid Potato Breeding Program for Variety Development
Dr. David Douches and the staff at Michigan State University's potato breeding program will focus on their work breeding diploid potatoes, including screening for traits, developing the cultivated germplasm base and highlight results from 2022 field studies.
Thursday, February 2
11:30am - 12:15pm
About The Speaker
Dr. David Douches
Dr. David S. Douches, with over 38 years of experience in potato breeding and genetics, has an active potato breeding program directed toward the development of improved cultivars in Michigan for 34 years. The focus of the program is to develop new cultivars for Michigan’s potato industry by integrating new genetic engineering techniques with conventional breeding efforts. Key traits targeted for improvement Colorado potato beetle resistance, disease resistance to scab, late blight, PVY and chip processing from long-term storage. Dave leads the Michigan State University potato breeding and genetics project and co-PI in the North Central Regional Potato Breeding and Genetics project. He is director of the USAID-funded Feed the Future Biotechnology Potato Project for Indonesia and Bangladesh and the lead scientist in developing four potato SNP arrays used by the potato breeding and genetics community.
