Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) and sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.), which are
nutritionally and commercially important tuberous crops, possess a perplexing heredity …

Specific length amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq) is a recently developed high-
resolution strategy for the discovery of large-scale de novo genotyping of single nucleotide …

The reinvention of potato, from a tetraploid clonal crop into a diploid seed-based hybrid crop,
requires insight in the mutational load, recombination landscape, and the genetic basis of …

High-throughput sequencing-based methods for bulked segregant analysis (BSA) allow for
the rapid identification of genetic markers associated with traits of interest. BSA studies have …

Potato is an important food crop due to its increasing consumption, and as a result, there is
demand for varieties with improved production. However, the current status of breeding for …

Cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is a highly heterozygous autotetraploid crop
species, and this creates challenges for traditional line development and molecular …

Assessment of genomic DNA sequence variation and genotype calling in autotetraploids
implies the ability to distinguish among five possible alternative allele copy number states …

Abstract Next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based genotyping methods can generate
numerous genetic markers in a single experiment and have contributed to plant genetic …

Potato variety development in the USA involves extensive interaction between public sector
scientists and state and national grower organizations to test and commercialize new …

Cultivated potato is a vegetatively propagated crop, and most varieties are autotetraploid
with high levels of heterozygosity. Reducing the ploidy and breeding potato at the diploid …