Duncan Russet is the 14th commercial variety from a public program whose potatoes have been licensed to nearly 150 companies for more than $11 million since 1998. Potato virus Y can cost an unchecked field 80% of its yield.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives78
- Confidence55
Six of the selections target off-planet food production and six target astronaut physiology, with more than $7 million committed across fiscal years 2026 to 2030 and nine awards going to investigators new to the program.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence62
Researchers screened dozens of candidate morphogenic genes crop by crop, then switched the winners on alongside the edit itself, and wild strawberry reached a fully regenerated edited plant more than a month faster.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives60
- Confidence55
A University of Maine team photographed lunch trays before and after eating for three years and let more than 400 students pick the intervention, a design worth copying even though the write-up gives direction without magnitudes.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives68
- Confidence44
Texas A&M modeled where Ornithodoros turicata can survive. The answer covers most of Texas and points at southeastern Georgia, where nobody has recorded the tick yet.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives62
- Confidence44
Silvec Biologics holds unconditional FIFRA registration for a spinach defensin therapy delivered by grafting. Efficacy numbers, price and throughput are not in the announcement.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives78
- Confidence52