BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 22, 2021
For decades, the University of Maine has devoted valuable agricultural research to studying how to improve potato crops, a central element of the state’s agricultural economy. Over the past year, the focus of the program’s mission has ramped up with one particular goal in mind: make potatoes that are resistant to climate change. Gregory Porter, a professor of crop ecology and management at UMaine, doesn’t yet have a sense of when the climate change-resistant potato varieties will be ready for market, but they are in a research testing phase right now at sites throughout the United States.