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The World Potato Congress (WPC) is pleased to be offering thefirst webinar in its 2020series featuring Dr. David Douches on January 24, 2020 at 09:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (USA and Canada).

Abstract:The Feed the Future Biotechnology Potato Partnership (BPP) is a five-year, multi-institution cooperative agreement between MSU, USAID, Simplot Company and other global institutions to develop and bring to market improved potato products to low-income farmers in South East Asian countries.

BPP offers biotech potato products with broad-spectrum resistance to late blight (Phytophthorainfestans), the most devastating potato disease in the world, and highly endemic throughout Bangladesh and Indonesia. BPP provides strategic human and institutional capacity building and support (research, development and outreach) to in-country partners in Bangladesh (BARI) and Indonesia (ICABIOGRAD) to support access to, technology transfer, and sustainable use of biotech potato technologies.

The project also monitors and evaluates environmental impact, gender balance contribution and socio-economic impact of these biotechnologies. BPP and partner institutions will steward biotech potato products for distribution to low-income farmers and eventual commercialization. All of these activities support and align with USAIDs goal of increasing food security and resilience.

Dr. David S. Douches, with over 36 years of experience inpotato breeding and genetics, has an active potato breeding program directedtoward the development of improved cultivars in Michigan for 30 years.

Thefocus of the program is to develop new cultivars for Michigans potato industryby integrating new genetic engineering techniques with conventional breedingefforts.Key traits targeted forimprovement include Colorado potato beetle resistance, disease resistance to scab, lateblight and PVY, as well as chip processing from long-term storage.

Dr. Douches is the principle scientist of the Michigan State Universitypotato breeding and genetics program and Director of the USAID-fundedFeed the Future Biotechnology Potato Project for Indonesia and Bangladesh.

The host for the WPC webinar series will be WPC Director, Dr. Nora Olsen (norao@uidaho.edu).

Webinar RegistrationInterested participants will be able to interact with the presenterof the webinar. When: January 24, 2020 at 09:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (USA and Canada)

Register in advance for this webinar:https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Svl0vOiUQyKZqtjfYCzqpgFollowing your registration, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about how to join the webinar.

All webinars are recorded and can be viewed via the World Potato Congresswebsite at http://www.potatocongress.org.

In case you missed any of WPCs 2019webinars listed below, they can be viewed on our website at http://www.potatocongress.org :

1.World Potato Congress Inc. Premier Global Networking OrganizationPresenter: WPC President, Romain Cools, Belgium

2.Geographic Constraints in Potato Breeding: Role of Day Length, Temperature and Light Intensity in Selecting for AdaptationPresenter: Dr. Peter VanderZaag, Sunrise Potato Storage Ltd., Canada

3.Best Management Practices for Seed Potato Handling from Storage to PlantingPresenter: Dr. Gary Secor, Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, USA

4.World Potato Output and TradePresenter: Cedric Porter, Editor, Brexit Food & Farming and co-editor of World Potato Markets, UK

5.Why You Should Plant Certified Seed PotatoesPresenter: Dr. Nina Zidack, Director of Seed Potato Certification, Montana State University, USA

6. Illustration of Regional Potato Promotion:Flanders (Belgium)Presenter:Kris Michiels, Marketing Adviser, VLAM, Belgium

WPC looks forward to interacting with you during this initiative. We welcome all your feedback via email:info@potatocongress.org.

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