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Traditional potato breeding is a laborious process in which, by intercrossing, valuable traits from different parental clones are combined in a progeny genotype. Depending on the availability of genes, molecular techniques can be used to add specific genes to existing cultivars that, although otherwise satisfactory, lack a lew commercially important traits. For virus resistance the gene for the coat protein of a given virus transplanted into the genome of the plant renders the plant resistant to that virus. In conferring such resistance to potato varieties it proved to be possible to preserve their intrinsic properties.
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Huisman, M.J., Cornelissen, B.J.C. & Jongedijk, E. Transgenic potato plants resistant to viruses. Euphytica 63, 187–197 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00023923
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