Polyploid organisms carry more than two copies of each chromosome, a condition rarely
tolerated in animals but which occurs relatively frequently in the plant kingdom. One of the …

Potato tubers accumulate substantial quantities of starch, which serves as their primary
energy reserve. As the predominant component of potato tubers, starch strongly influences …

Cultivated potato is a clonally propagated autotetraploid species with a highly
heterogeneous genome. Phased assemblies of six cultivars including two chromosome …

As one of the world's most important food crops, the potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) has
spurred innovation in autotetraploid genetics, including in the use of SNP arrays to …

Forest tree breeding efforts have focused mainly on improving traits of economic importance,
selecting trees suited to new environments or generating trees that are more resilient to …

With the rapid expansion of the application of genomics and sequencing in plant breeding,
there is a constant drive for better reference genomes. In potato (Solanum tuberosum), the …

Genomic selection, the application of genomic prediction (GP) models to select candidate
individuals, has significantly advanced in the past two decades, effectively accelerating …

Reasonable water and fertilizer management technology can improve water use efficiency
(WUE), fertilizer use efficiency, potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tuber yield and quality, but …

The relationship between population size, inbreeding, loss of genetic variation and
evolutionary potential of fitness traits is still unresolved, and large-scale empirical studies …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a staple food crop and is considered one of the main
sources of carbohydrates worldwide. Late blight (Phytophthora infestans) and common scab …