Potato Breeding and Germplasm Improvement
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2021) | Viewed by 439
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the third most important food crop in the world. The potato is not only an important staple food in some developing countries but is also the raw material for the French fry, chip, and starch processing industries. It is grown in over 150 countries and employs some 2.5 million people across the entire production chain.
Potato breeding is challenging due to the tetraploid nature and clonal propagation of potato, limited variability for economically important traits in breeding clones, and a complex set of requirements for successful adoption of new cultivars. Fortunately, rich germplasm resources are readily available and the genetic diversity in Solanum relatives is typically easily transferred to cultivated potatoes via interspecific crosses. Recently, there is a shift in potato breeding and there has been increased efforts in diploid breeding of potato and use of botanical seed instead of tubers as means of propagation.
This special issue is focused on recent advances in potato breeding and germplasm improvement including identification of new sources of resistance to various pest and pathogens, recent advances in breeding tools including genetic mapping, marker assisted selection and genomic selection, high throughput phenotyping and its applications in potato breeding, diploid breeding, gene editing, cytogenetics, comparative genomics and genomic resource development. All papers including reviews, original research and short communications that use traditional and molecular breeding approaches in potato are welcome.
Prof. Vidyasagar Sathuvalli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Solanum spp
- Genomic selection
- Gene editing
- Diploid breeding
- Germplasm screening
- Crop wild relatives
- Genome sequencing
- Genetic mapping
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