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 …

Noncommercial varieties of potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) harbor genetic potential for
improvements of disease resistance and abiotic stress tolerance in commercial potato …

Key message Genomic prediction models for starch content and chipping quality show
promising results, suggesting that genomic selection is a feasible breeding strategy in …

Efficiency and precision in plant breeding can be enhanced by using diagnostic DNA-based
markers for the selection of superior cultivars. This technique has been applied to many …

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 …

Tuber yield, starch content, starch yield and chip color are complex traits that are important
for industrial uses and food processing of potato. Chip color depends on the quantity of …

The tuber‐bearing wild potato species, Solanum stoloniferum, carries a dominant gene,
Rysto, which confers extreme resistance (ER) to Potato virus Y (PVY). This gene was …

Key message We have elucidated the Andigena origin of the potato Ry adg gene on
chromosome XI of CIP breeding lines and developed two marker assays to facilitate its …

Potato virus Y (PVY) is responsible for the majority of seed potato lot rejections in North
America. Some commercial cultivars and breeding lines have major genes for PVY …

Growing potato cultivars resistant to Potato virus Y (PVY) offers the easiest and the most cost-
effective solution to prevent the losses caused by PVY. Genes for resistance to PVY can be …