Aardappelteelt uit Oostenrijk

Group picture of the entire consortium at the last project’s meeting held in Bonn on 29-30 May 2024

oktober 28, 2024

ADAPT project comes to an end after four important and productive years of potato research

The ADAPT project, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 program, has concluded with significant advancements in developing climate-resilient potatoes, bringing together a multidisciplinary team to enhance stress resilience and breeding strategies for future potato crops.

The potato is used to cooler climate and vulnerabe to environmental stresses; particularly to combinations of heat and drought.

september 01, 2020

Major European project to develop heat- and drought-stress tolerant potatoes

The Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Vienna coordinates a consortium of 17 European leading academic research institutions, potato breeders, a non-profit EU association, a government agency and a screening technology developer.

„Tiroler Speckigen“ and „Tiroler Mehligen“ now available at SPAR

september 09, 2015

Austrian retailer SPAR offers 'Quality Tirol' Potatoes

The potato harvest in Tirol (Austria) has started: from now on the great tasting „Tiroler Speckigen“ and the „Tiroler Mehligen“ with Quality seal „Qualität Tirol“ are available in all branches of the retailer SPAR throughout Austria.