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The new rules agreed in EU opens the door to the potatoes of the future. SolEdits is behind the first one ready for market

SolEdits, the Swedish agtech company and spin-off from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), has progressed the first potato genotype that meets the EU’s newly agreed regulatory framework for Category 1 New Genomic Technique (NGT) plants. Developed in close collaboration with Lyckeby, the potato is among the first NGT-compliant

SolEdits helps Lyckeby cut at least 5,000 tonnes of chemicals yearly with CRISPR innovation.

The Challenge Potato starch is used in everything from soups, sauces and dairyproducts to paper and cardboard. To meet industrial requirements forprocess tolerance and product storage stability, much of the 50 million tonnesof starch produced annually must be chemically modified – a processrequiring large amounts of chemicals. The Solution Together

Oppotunity enters into a license agreement to improve late blight control in starch potatoes

“Project Oppotunity has entered into a license agreement with Enza Zaden to use the DMR resistance trait to improve fungal control in various crops.” Project Oppotunity is an agreement of 12 European parties active in starch potatoes who are seriously engaged in getting new breeding techniques approved in Europe. Hans

Support for Commission’s Proposal on New Genomic Techniques in Agriculture

“Farming and producing more sustainably is not a scientific problem – it’s a regulatory problem” Euroseeds reports that 20 large organizations in the agricultural and food industry express their support of the Commission’s proposal on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), emphasizing its urgency due to challenges like climate change. The organizations

EU Commission seeks to open debate on New Genomic Techniques

The EU Commission is to debate the legislation and use of NGT’s (techniques that alter the genome of an organism). This after a study shows their potential to contribute to sustainable food systems and a need to review current policies. The Commission will now start a wide and open consultation

SLU Holding interview with Mariette Andersson, CEO of SolEdits

World-leading research in plant breeding made accessible in new company Mariette Andersson and her colleagues are world leaders in their area of research. Since 2014, the research group has successfully developed the new Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR technology into a powerful tool for plant breeding. Mariette, who is also CEO of

Nobel Prize-winning “gene scissors” the basis for an innovative start-up company in Sweden

SolEdits AB is a newly started company with the mission to make the CRISPR “gene scissors” available as a plant-breeding tool for all stakeholders in the potato industry. The company will improve the properties of commercially interesting potato varieties.