Wild potatoes in Guatemala, 1995

Collectors: D.M. Spooner, R. Hoekstra, V. Martínez and R.G. van den Berg

Introduction

From September 11 to November 5, 1995, a collaborative collecting expedition was organised by Guatemala, the United States and the Netherlands to collect wild potato germplasm in Guatemala and gather field data for taxonomic studies on Solanum agrimonifolium, S. bulbocastanum, S. clarum, S. demissum, and S. morelliforme. The 43 true seed and one tuber collection nearly quadrupled the available wild potato germplasm for Guatemala.

In 'Documents' you will find the report of this expedition. Collecting forms have not been used, the collecting data were stored on a laptop. Longitude & latitude were recorded by GPS, altitude by an altimeter. Lon/Lat data suffer some inaccuracy, due to deliberate changes by the US military, equivalent to about 100 meters of distance. This "Selective Availability" was turned off in 2000.

Documents

Report of expedition to collect wild species of potato in Guatemala. See page 47 for the collecting permission.
Verzamelexpeditie redt wilde aardappelen, Prophyta 4 July/August 1997 (Dutch)
Spooner, D.M., R. Hoekstra, R.G. van den Berg & V. Martínez (1998) Solanum sect. Petota in Guatemala; taxonomy and genetic resources. Amer. J. of Potato Research 75: 3-17 doi:10.1007/BF02883512

Material

Download an Excel file with all materials of this mission that is documented at CGN: 8 accessions and 33 samples that were not included in the CGN collection (in EURISCO format).
More material of this mission is available in the US Potato Collection (GRIN), type: SMHV* into the search field Search For.

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