Potato retailers put good looks before quality

07 August 1998

Potato retailers put good looks before quality

POTATO plant breeders may neglect overall quality in pursuit of aesthetic appearance because of the major retailers obsession with skin-deep attractiveness.

Dr Finlay Dale, of the Scottish Crop Research Institute, told a meeting of growers that other criteria, such as resistance to virus, was being neglected to concentrate on skin quality.

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  The Scotsman 07/08/98 page 28