The common potato, Solanum tuberosum L., is the third most important food crop and is
grown and consumed worldwide. Indigenous cultivated (landrace) potatoes and wild potato …

Background The process of selecting superior performing plants for food, feed and fiber
products dates back more than 10,000 years and has been substantially refined in the last …

Compared to other major food crops, progress in potato yield as the result of breeding efforts
is very slow. Genetic gains cannot be fixed in potato due to obligatory out-breeding …

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

Background Unreduced gametes (gametes with the somatic chromosome number) may
provide a pathway for evolutionary speciation via allopolyploid formation. We evaluated the …

The cultivated potato is a major crop worldwide. It is a high input crop with complex quality
requirements at harvest and during storage. Potato breeders are fortunate to have access to …

Abstract Key Message Efficient induction of unreduced gamete in different crops and its
genetic consequences will open new avenues for plant breeding. Abstract Unreduced …

Publisher Summary Potato breeders are challenged by the tetraploid nature of the potato,
limited variability for economically important traits in adapted breeding clones, and a …

Late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans is one of the most devastating diseases in
potato cultivation and is mostly controlled by the application of chemicals. However …

Chromosome pairing relationships within cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum) and its wild
tuber‐bearing relatives (Solanum sect. Petota) have been interpreted by genome formulas …