Plant diseases caused by viral infection are affecting all major crops. Being an obligate intracellular organisms, chemical control of these pathogens is so far not applied in the field except to control the insect vectors of the viruses. Understandi...
Comparative omics analysis offers one of the most direct and effective approaches to gain novel insights into crop traits, facilitating candidate gene identification and crop improvement. Verticillium dahliae causes one of the most globally devastati...
Potato (Solanum tuberosum), an important food crop worldwide, is threatened by broadleaf weeds. Bentazone is an effective herbicide for controlling weeds; however, as a photosynthesis inhibitor, it can also affect potato plants. Therefore, screening...
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) is one of the most widely cultivated crops in the world, with outstanding stress tolerance, but drought stress can lead to a significant decrease in its yield. To reveal the response mechanism of sweet potato...
Fresh fruits and vegetable products are easily perishable during postharvest handling due to enzymatic browning reactions. This phenomenon has contributed to a significant loss of food. To reveal the physiological changes in fresh-cut potato tubers a...
Potato scab, a global soil-borne disease caused by Streptomyces, is pivotal in developing resistant cultivars due to its complex resistance mechanisms. This study investigates the transcriptomic responses in potato to common scab using resistant vari...
Nuclear factor Y (NF-Y) is a heterotrimeric complex composed of three unique subunits: NF-YA, NF-YB, and NF-YC. This transcription factor complex binds to the CCAAT box of eukaryotic promoters, playing a crucial role in various biological processes i...
Phytophthora infestans poses a serious threat to potato production, storage, and processing. Understanding plant immunity triggered by fungal elicitors is important for the effective control of plant diseases. However, the role of the potato stress r...
The formation and development of tubers, the primary edible and economic organ of potatoes, directly affect their yield and quality. The regulatory network and mechanism of tuberization have been preliminarily revealed in recent years, but plenty of...
The root system plays a decisive role in the growth and development of plants. The water requirement of a root system depends strongly on the plant species. Potatoes are an important food and vegetable crop grown worldwide, especially under irrigatio...
Leaf color, as a key ornamental and quality trait in leafy vegetable sweet potato, is controlled by the coordinated regulation of multiple pigment metabolic pathways. To dissect the mechanisms underlying leaf color variation, the integrated transcrip...
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) is an important root crop in China, playing significant roles in ensuring national food security and increasing farmers’ income. The sprouting capability of sweet potato storage roots determines the qual...
The color of tuber skin exhibits remarkable diversity in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) and is intricately associated with variance in anthocyanin accumulation across different varieties. The regulatory mechanisms governing this phenomenon are poorly...
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) seedlings are highly sensitive to freezing temperatures, which severely impairs growth and causes substantial losses in tuber yield and quality. This study aimed to screen freezing-tolerant potato germplasm accessions, i...
Enzymatic browning is a major issue in potato processing, causing a decline in both nutritional value and quality. Although there are numerous studies on the mechanism of enzymatic browning of potato tubers, few relevant reports are available on the...
The late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans (P. infestans) has been a major constraint for worldwide sustainable potato production. Chinese potato cultivar Qingshu 9 has shown excellent field performance against late blight. To understand the me...
Stem nematode disease can seriously reduce the yield of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam). To explore resistance mechanism to stem nematode in sweet potato, transcriptomes and metabolomes were sequenced and compared between two sweet potato cul...
Field co-infection of multiple viruses results in considerable losses in the yield and quality of storage roots in sweet potato. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying developmental disorders of sweet potato subjected to c...
The selection and breeding of deep rooting and drought-tolerant varieties has become a promising approach for improving the yield and adaptability of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) in arid and semiarid areas. Therefore, the discovery of root-developme...
Background/Objectives: Sweet potato is a tropical and subtropical crop and its growth and yield are susceptible to low-temperature stress. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the low temperature stress of sweetpotato are unknown. Methods: In...
M. incognita, a root-knot nematode (RKN), infects the roots of several important food crops, including sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.), and severely reduces yields. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying infection remain unclear. Previously...
Background/Objectives: Soil salinization threatens global potato production, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying salt tolerance remain poorly understood. This study aimed to elucidate dynamic transcriptomic responses to salt stress, identify key...
The study was conducted with C31 and C80 genotypes of the potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), which are tolerant and susceptible to phosphite (Phi, H2PO3), respectively. To decipher the molecular mechanisms underlying tolerance and susceptibility to Phi i...
The fried potato market is a high-value industry, exceeding USD 55 billion and still growing. However, the genetic mechanisms underlying key frying traits remain poorly understood. In this study, we conducted a transcriptome analysis on two types of...
Melatonin (MT) has been widely recognized for its ability to mitigate the effects of abiotic stress and regulate plant development. In this study, we investigated the role of exogenous MT in enhancing heat tolerance in sweet potato, with a particular...
Sweet potato is a hexaploid heterozygote with a complex genetic background, self-pollination infertility, and cross incompatibility, which makes genetic linkage analysis quite difficult. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide a new strategy f...
Leafy sweet potato is a new type of sweet potato, whose leaves and stems are used as green vegetables. However, sweet potato tips can be affected by pre-harvest factors, especially the intensity of light. At present, intercropping, greenhouse plantin...
Colored potatoes with red and purple skin or flesh possess significant nutritional value and health benefits due to their rich anthocyanin content. To investigate the genetic mechanisms underlying color formation, the high-anthocyanin-content purple-...
The timing of potato tuberization is affected by potato ripeness, environmental factors, and polygene regulation. The accurate control of the transition to tuberization has both scientific and practical production value, but the key factors regulatin...
Organic agriculture sparks a lively debate on its potential health and environmental benefits. Comparative studies often investigate the response of crops to organic farming through targeted approaches and within a limited experimental work. To clari...
Enhancing crop nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in agricultural sciences is a pivotal challenge, particularly for high-demand crops like potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.), the world’s third most significant food crop. This study delves into the mole...
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Anthocyanins, flavonoid pigments, are responsible for the purple and red hues in potato tubers. This study analyzed tubers from four potato cultivars—red RR, purple HJG, yellow QS9, and white JZS8—to elucidate the genetic mechanisms under...
Carotenoids are important compounds of quality and coloration within sweet potato storage roots, but the mechanisms that govern the accumulation of these carotenoids remain poorly understood. In this study, metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses of...
Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient for plant growth, serving as a cofactor in chlorophyll synthesis, photosynthetic electron transport, and redox reactions. Both Fe deficiency and excess disrupt mineral nutrient homeostasis, but the ionomic and...
The potato tuber moth (PTM), Phthorimaea operculella Zeller (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), is one of the most destructive pests of potato crops worldwide. Although it has been reported how potatoes integrate the early responses to various PTM herbivory...
Light exposure can induce post-harvest potato tubers to become green due to the accumulation of chlorophyll (Chl) and the formation of glycoside alkaloids, posing a potential risk to food safety. This study evaluated exogenous indole-3-acetic acid (I...
Background: The phytoene desaturase gene is a classical visual marker for validating CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in plants, as its loss of function produces a readily scorable albino phenotype. While the biochemical basis of pigment loss is well estab...
This study aimed to elucidate the physiological, biochemical, and transcriptional regulatory responses of potato plants to iron deficiency stress. Two potato varieties were selected for analysis: 05P (high tuber iron content) and CI5 (low tuber iron...
Potato tubers exhibit prominent spatial heterogeneity in starch accumulation across distinct anatomical zones, yet the underlying transcriptional and metabolic regulatory mechanisms remain unclear, especially the molecular basis for divergent starch...
Potatoes are the world’s most produced non-grain crops and an important food source for billions of people. Potatoes are susceptible to numerous pathogens that reduce yield, including Potato virus Y (PVY). Genetic resistance to PVY is a sustain...
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is a major global food crop, and oxidative stress can significantly impact its growth. Previous studies have shown that its resistance to oxidative stress is mainly related to transcription factors, post-translational mo...
Potato early blight is caused by the necrotrophic fungus Alternaria solani and can result in yield losses of up to 50% if left uncontrolled. At present, the disease is controlled by chemical fungicides, yet rapid development of fungicide resistance r...
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.) is a commercially relevant food crop with high demand worldwide. This species belongs to the Convolvulaceae family and is native to tropical and subtropical regions. Storage temperature and time can adversely...
Whether DNA methylation modification affects the gene transcription and expression of potatoes under drought stress is still unknown. In this study, we used comparative transcriptomics to explore the expression pattern of related genes of the drought...
The expansin-like subfamilies (EXLA and EXLB) are vital for plant cell wall dynamics, but it remains uncharacterized in wild tetraploid and hexaploid Ipomoea batatas, and its role in the storage root (SR) development is poorly understood. In this wor...
This study investigated the mechanism by which combined vacuum packaging and 0.5% (w/v) ascorbic acid treatment (VP-AsA) preserves fresh-cut potatoes at 4 °C, integrating physiological and transcriptomic analyses. Transcriptome sequencing reveale...
Potato tubers can be dormant for 1–15 weeks after harvest, and the germination of tuber eye-buds is suppressed by cold. Genetic mechanisms regulating bud dormancy at low temperatures are not completely understood. We performed RNA-seq to compar...
The network regulatory mechanism governing the dynamics of plant maturity and tuber development in potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) has remained a major focus in potato molecular biology research. In this study, three potato cultivars with different m...
Flower strips of French Marigold are commonly used pest repellents in potato fields. However, the effect of French Marigold volatiles on potato metabolism, physiology and induced defense is unknown. Thus, a microarray transcriptome analysis was perfo...
Potato stolon research has emphasized stolon-tip tuberization, leaving the transition of basal axillary buds into subterranean stolons poorly characterized. Using cv. Désirée, we characterized this transition at IS0 immediately before s...
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