Potato is one of the most important starch crops in the world and is used as a staple food for
more than one billion people worldwide. Starch is the main storage compound in potato …

Key message The potato late blight resistance gene R8 has been cloned. R8 is found in five
late blight resistant varieties deployed in three different continents. R8 recognises Avr8 and …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a staple food crop and is considered one of the main
sources of carbohydrates worldwide. Late blight (Phytophthora infestans) and common scab …

Key message This is the first report of the production and use of a diploid inbred line-based
F2 population for genetic mapping in potato. Abstract Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is an …

Modern SNP genotyping technologies allow measurement of the relative abundance of
different alleles for a given locus and consequently estimation of their allele dosage …

The potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the fourth most important crop food in the world and
Colombia has one of the most important collections of potato germplasm in the world (the …

In diploid species, many multiparental populations have been developed to increase genetic
diversity and quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping resolution. In these populations, haplotype …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is often considered a water-sensitive crop and its production
can be threatened by drought events, making water stress tolerance a trait of increasing …

Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic element that can accumulate in plants and poses a threat to human
health through biomagnification. There are differences in Cd levels among different plants …

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 …