News on Potato Varieties and Seed from Austria

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

October 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.

January 17, 2023

ADAPT news: Proteome profiling to understand multi-stress response in potato

The Horizon 2020 EU project Accelerated Development of multiple-stress tolerAnt PoTato (ADAPT), in which Europatat is participating, aims at developing new strategies to make potatoes fit for the challenging growth conditions of the future.

Updates on the Austrian potato variety trials (Nov 2022)

November 05, 2022

Update on ADAPT potato variety trials in Austria (Nov 2022)

The ADAPT project aims at developing new strategies to make potatoes fit for the challenging growth conditions of the future. Within this project, potato varieties trials are conducted in Austria.

Two new varieties for the potato chips and table potato sector: Nöstling and Meichip

September 04, 2022

Lower Austrian Seed Growers' Cooperative presents two new potato varieties at Potato Europe Nöstling and Meichip

Together with around 300 active growers, Niederösterreichische Saatbaugenossenschaft, the only potato breeder in Austria, has been breeding high-quality potato varieties for international and domestic cultivation for 95 years now.