Are potatoes being put at risk by warmer weather?

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Are potatoes being put at risk by warmer weather?





The humble potato may struggle to grow in the UK in years to come due to climate change, researchers have warned.

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Scotland's fields grow a quarter of Britain's potato crop.

However household favourites such as Ayrshire and Maris Piper are said to be at risk as temperatures rise.

The James Hutton Institute (JHI) at Invergowrie, just outside Dundee, is now trying to find varieties that will grow in warmer conditions.

The annual retail value of potato products across the UK is put at more than £2bn.

Prof Lesley Torrance, the JHI research organisation's executive director of science, warned that climate change posed an "existential threat" to the potato industry.

She said there was a need to quickly develop new varieties that can cope with rising temperatures.

The institute is using an experimental farm to study how crops grow, and has a large collection of potato species from around the world.

Prof Torrance told BBC Scotland's Landward that climate change was a major problem.

"Potatoes are a cool-climate crop," she said. "And of course climate change predictions are that we're going to have hotter and drier summers. So that's a big problem."

Crop simulation research by the institute has modelled what are called plant heat stress days.

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