True Potato Seed

September 12, 2017 | Articles

New plant breeders’ rights protocol offers scope for potato seed

This spring, Bejo Zaden BV in Warmenhuizen acquired plant breeders’ rights for the True Potato Seed (TPS) Oliver variety. This raises the question of how the plant breeders’ rights protocol has been adapted for this TPS variety. Lysbeth Hof and Jan Kees Schipper of Naktuinbouw (the Netherlands Inspection Service for Horticulture) answer this question. They…

July 11, 2017 | Articles

Seed potato or potato Seed?

Last month I read in the Dutch agricultural press that the Dutch seed company BEJO introduced a commercial True Potato Seed (TPS) variety as first company in the Western world. The variety is a tetraploid hybrid and the company aims with this variety for markets in Afrika, Asia and Central Amerika.