From breeding to genome design: A genomic makeover for potatoes

Kasey Markel; Patrick M Shih

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2021.06.027

From breeding to genome design: A genomic makeover for potatoes

Cell. 2021 Jul 22;184(15):3843-3845. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.06.027.

Authors

Kasey Markel¹, Patrick M Shih²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; Feedstocks Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA; Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.
² Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; Feedstocks Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA; Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; Innovative Genomics Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 34297926
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.06.027

Abstract

Potato breeding efforts have long been hindered by the genetic consequences of millennia of clonal propagation. To mitigate genomic constraints, Zhang et al. leverage an unprecedented scale of sequencing and marker-assisted breeding to unlock traits that have not been possible through classical breeding, providing a blueprint for plant genome design.

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Genome, Plant
Genomics
Phenotype
Plant Breeding
Solanum tuberosum* / genetics

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