ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
Unlocking the complex genomes of European potatoes for modern breeding
Potato is one of the three most important food crops in the world. Around 1.3 billion people rely on potato as a staple food every day. But despite this exceptional socio-economic importance, the improvement of potato during the past 150 years has been limited. The main reason for this deficit is the highly heterozygous, autotetraploid genome of potato. This complicates several important aspects of breeding including the fixation of beneficial alleles and the implementation of modern, genomics-assisted breeding techniques. Recently it has been suggested to convert tetraploid potato into a diploid crop, and thereby overcome all the difficulties associated with tetraploid potato breeding.…
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