date:May 31, 2013
r of agricultural economics, in 2011 won funding from Simplot to survey potato industry players about re-introducing genetically engineered potatoes into the food chain. His conclusion: It could succeed, provided potatoes were modified with potato genes, not foreign micro-organisms that in the 1990s spawned terms such as frankenfood.
The Monsanto product crossed that species line, Guenther said. The exciting thing about the Simplot product is, it stays within the potato species.