European boost for global food security: Dutch biotech Solynta gets €20 million EIB backing for highly disease resistant potato varieties

欧洲助力全球粮食安全：荷兰生物技术公司 Solynta 获欧洲投资银行 2000 万欧元支持，用于培育高抗病马铃薯品种

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Solynta

来源地址：

https://www.solynta.com/press/solynta-gets-e20-million-eib-backing-for-highly-disease-resistant-potato-varieties/

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马铃薯基因组设计育种

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前沿资讯

语种：

英语

原文发布日期：

2025-07-18

摘要：

EIB lends €20 million to Dutch biotechnology company Solynta to develop potato seeds with strong resistance to disease and resilience to climate change. The focus of the EIB loan, which is supported under the European Commission’s InvestEU programme, is on the use of true potato seeds instead of traditional tubers for cultivation. Solynta’s technology holds promise of securing successful potato harvests and enhancing food supplies worldwide. Through proven hybrid breeding technology, Solynta has been able to create more robust potato varieties that require much fewer crop protection inputs. Solynta’s breeding method, which excludes genetically modified organisms (GMOs), can adapt potato characteristics relatively quickly to different needs including resistance to diseases such as late blight – a destructive fungal illness – and adaptation to climate change. As a result, the company’s potato varieties contribute to the United Nations sustainable-development goals (SDGs) such as ending poverty and hunger and promoting responsible consumption and production.