D. in plant virology from the University of Bath in the U.K. in 1991, she tried various conventional hybridization techniques to outbreed the viruses that wipe out the otherwise drought-resistant and energy-rich tuber.
More worrying to Dr Noteborn, however, is that potatoes are tricky plants to use in feeding trials because they vary so much from tuber to tuber in a range of vitamins, starches, proteins and significantly natural poisons.