Miscellaneous

• Rocío Isabelle Alagón (2020): Video incl. flowering Solanum bukasovii plant at "Waqrapukara", over 4140m altitude near Cusco (PER).
• Robinson, R.A. (2004): The Amateur Potato Breeder’s Manual

• Organic potatoes: BioImpuls project description, breeding (both in Dutch) and in english. Examples of trading companies: Bonna Terra , Bioselect /Agrico .
• Some books: the Potato (1999), the Potato (2003, Dutch version 2005).
• Exhibition the Mystery of Dundee (in Dutch) in October 2016 on potato hunters (Aardappeljagers) based on the archive of CPC, Dundee.

Potato on YouTube (a very small selection)

• Cartoon on the history of the potato by Claus Deleuran: “The Tale of the Wonderful Potato".

Newsletters

• Potato Council Newsletter
• potatobusiness Newsletter (at the bottom of the home page)
• Kew's Samara newsletter on Millenium Seed Bank. Individual issues downloadable as PDF.

News

• Potato News Today

Upcoming conferences

• extensive list of events maintained by PotatoPro
• EAPR breeding and varietal assessment section & EUCARPIA section potatoes, 19th joint meeting 3-6/12/2018, Rostock-Warnemuende, Germany.

Transgenic potatoes

• Promising late blight resistant potatoes (3R-gene stack: RB, vnt1.1 & blb2) from CIP.

Food / Crop Wild Relatives

• Atlas Obscura 2020: Ancient cultivation of wild potato Solanum jamesii in Utah.
• BBC travel 2020: How the humble potato changed the world.
• CIP: potato farming success in Kenia because of Decentralized Seed Multipliers (DSMs).
• CIP 20190107: Jim Brandeen on role (potato) CWR and food security
• Crop Trust 20200903: Potato diversity leads to economic gain in Uganda. Cost of CIP genebank (incl. potato) less than a tenth of the gross economic benefits derived from a single improved variety in one country.
• The Guardian 2019: How Peru’s potato museum could stave off world food crisis
• CIP blog: 10 ways to enhance Andean agrobiodiversity during COVID-19 and climate change
• Ancient history encyclopedia: Fertile Crescent, birthplace of agriculture.
• Plant Humanities Lab: cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies (incl. e.g. banana, cacao, sunflower, watermelon).
• Bloomberg 20180413: Climate change is messing with your dinner.
• Foodtank: the future of food
• Food Forever 20191223: How the diversity of our foods can help feed us in a changing world. Solutions summit.
• NYT 20181205: Can we grow more food on less land? We'll have to ...
• IFPRI blog: Innovations in food systems, key to human and planetary health.
• The Guardian 20180323: Destruction of nature as dangerous as climate change.
• Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) 20180628: the value of the seeds stored (for conservation and research).
• Monograph (Särkinen et al 2018): A revision of the Old World Black Nightshades
• C. Khoury et al. 2019: Crop wild relatives of North America published (Vol 1 & Vol 2).