Research and Development

Kobe University is a prominent Japanese university located in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture.
The university is involved in various types of potato-related research, focusing on plant chemistry, pest control, and crop protection.

Lantmännen is an agricultural cooperative and Northern Europe’s leader in agriculture, machinery, bioenergy and food products.

LEAF is a UK charity promoting sustainable farming through Integrated Farm Management. It connects farmers, industry, and the public to advance eco-friendly practices, protect the environment, and support food production and education.

Founded in 1919, Leatherhead Food Research, based near London, UK, is an independent organisation delivering innovative research, scientific consultancy and regulatory guidance and interpretation.

Levity CropScience is a research oriented company in the United Kingdom working to make fertilizers to be more efficiently taken up and used by crops - including the potato crop.

Lifeasible is a biotechnology company, specialized in agricultural science. Lifeasible offers a wide variety of agro-related services and products for environmental and energy solutions.

Lihme Protein Solutions is a Danish company developing a commercial method based on controlled affinity separation (CAD) to extract functional proteins from the potato juice that remains after starch extraction.

The Louis Bolk Institute is a Dutch research foundation focused on sustainable and organic potato agriculture, including seed quality, disease resistance breeding, and agro-ecological systems.

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) conducts potato-related research, with an emphasis on the genetic diversity and breeding potential of European potato cultivars.

Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is one of Europe's oldest, largest and most prestigious universities, consistently ranking among the world's top 100 universities.

Mahany Farms is located in Arkport, United States offers potatoes for chips production. In addition to growing chipping potatoes, Mahany Farms helps develop new chipping potato varieties through Cornell’s breeding program, which tests different potato varieties’ viability in different regions.

Manitoba Diversification Centres is a network of four non-profit applied research institutes located throughout Manitoba, Canada, and controlled by local producers and agribusiness partners.

Marine conservation is a company involved in Coral reef protection and rehabilitation in Pakistan, through the scientifically proven methodology of Ocean Quest Global.

McGill University is consistently ranked as one of the top universities, both nationally and internationally. It is a world-renowned institution of higher learning with research activities spanning three campuses.

Michigan State University (MSU) is a public research university located in East Lansing, Michigan, United States with a number of potato research projects, in particular in the area of Potato Breeding and Genetics.

Mintel Group Ltd is a privately owned, London-based market research firm.

Miso Robotics develops and manufactures artificial intelligence-driven robots that assist chefs to make food at restaurants.

The mission of the Montana State University (MSU) Seed Potato Certification Program is to certify Montana grown seed potatoes and conduct research to improve potato quality and testing methods.