"The meeting allowed Kenyan farmers to hear about the new bilateral agreement to allow importation of Scottish seed potatoes and to connect seed importers in Kenya with exporters in Scotland

Scientists, plant health officials, representatives from farmers’ organisations and potato growers from Scotland and Kenya participated in a workshop held in Nairobi to discuss findings from BBSRC and Scottish Government funded research on virus resistance, heat tolerance and early maturity of potato crops. 

The meeting, funded by a BBSRC GCRF Impact accelerator account award to the University of St Andrews, featured research conducted by Mark Taylor, Lesley Torrance, Alison Roberts, Glenn Bryan and colleagues at the James Hutton Institute.

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This article was originally posted by The James Hutton Institute