Highlights•Almost 600 complete plant genome assemblies are now available in public
repositories.•New sequencing technologies are producing genome assemblies of …

A considerable number of highly diverse species exist in genus Solanum. Because they can
adapt to a broad range of habitats, potato wild relatives are promising sources of desirable …

Key message This article evaluates the main contributions of tomato, tobacco, petunia,
potato, pepper and eggplant to classical and molecular plant genetics and genomics since …

Potatoes represent an important staple food crop across the planet. Yet, to maintain tuber
quality and extend availability, there is a necessity to store tubers for long periods often …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) breeders consider a large number of traits during cultivar
development and progress in conventional breeding can be slow. There is accumulating …

Garlic (Allium sativum) is used worldwide in cooking and industry, including pharmacology/
medicine and cosmetics, for its interesting properties. Identifying redundancies in …

Key message Potatoes are highly heterozygous and the conventional breeding of superior
germplasm is challenging, but use of a combination of MAS and EBVs can accelerate …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the most important food crops worldwide. Current
potato varieties are highly susceptible to drought stress. In view of global climate change …

Gene identification and evolution and also their impacts on agronomical traits are important
variations between related species which are often because of differences in the cumulative …

Key message Plenty of molecular markers have been developed by contemporary
sequencing technologies, whereas few of them are successfully applied in breeding, thus …