Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) represent an important tuber crop, worldwide. During its
prolonged clonal propagation, numerous deleterious mutations have accumulated in the …

The cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum) has a complex genetic structure due to its
autotetraploidy and vegetative propagation which leads to accumulation of mutations and a …

Background Recent genomic studies have drastically altered our knowledge of polyploid
evolution. Wild potatoes (Solanum section Petota) are a highly diverse and economically …

Polyploidy is remarkably common in the plant kingdom and polyploidization is a major
driving force for plant genome evolution. Polyploids may contain genomes from different …

Polyploidy is an important factor in plant evolution that may trigger drastic genome
reorganization and phenotypic differentiation. In the last decade, extensive studies have …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the most consumed non-cereal food crop. Most commercial
potato cultivars are autotetraploids with highly heterozygous genomes, severely hampering …

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

Tetraploid potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is a genetically complex, polysomic tetraploid
(2n= 4x= 48), highly heterozygous crop, which makes genetic research and utilization of …

Conversion of potato from a tetraploid, heterozygous, vegetatively propagated crop to a
diploid F1 hybrid, propagated via botanical seed, would constitute a considerable advance …

Relative to homozygous diploids, the presence of multiple homologs or homeologs in
polyploids affords greater tolerance to mutations that can impact genome evolution. In this …