Graph pangenome captures missing heritability and empowers tomato breeding

Y Zhou, Z Zhang, Z Bao, H Li, Y Lyu, Y Zan, Y Wu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Missing heritability in genome-wide association studies defines a major problem in genetic
analyses of complex biological traits,. The solution to this problem is to identify all causal …

Genome evolution and diversity of wild and cultivated potatoes

D Tang, Y Jia, J Zhang, H Li, L Cheng, P Wang, Z Bao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-cereal food crop, and the
vast majority of commercially grown cultivars are highly heterozygous tetraploids. Advances …

Chromosome-scale and haplotype-resolved genome assembly of a tetraploid potato cultivar

H Sun, WB Jiao, K Krause, JA Campoy, M Goel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Potato is the most widely produced tuber crop worldwide. However, reconstructing the four
haplotypes of its autotetraploid genome remained an unsolved challenge. Here, we report …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomic discovery of deleterious mutations facilitates hybrid potato breeding

Y Wu, D Li, Y Hu, H Li, GP Ramstein, S Zhou, X Zhang… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Hybrid potato breeding will transform the crop from a clonally propagated tetraploid to a
seed-reproducing diploid. Historical accumulation of deleterious mutations in potato …

Germplasm, breeding, and genomics in potato improvement of biotic and abiotic stresses tolerance

JK Tiwari, T Buckseth, R Zinta, N Bhatia… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Potato is one of the most important food crops in the world. Late blight, viruses, soil and
tuber-borne diseases, insect-pests mainly aphids, whiteflies, and potato tuber moths are the …

Converting hybrid potato breeding science into practice

ME de Vries, JR Adams, E Eggers, S Ying, JE Stockem… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Research on diploid hybrid potato has made fast advances in recent years. In this review we
give an overview of the most recent and relevant research outcomes. We define different …

Tomato root specialized metabolites evolved through gene duplication and regulatory divergence within a biosynthetic gene cluster

RE Kerwin, JE Hart, PD Fiesel, YR Lou, P Fan… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Tremendous plant metabolic diversity arises from phylogenetically restricted specialized
metabolic pathways. Specialized metabolites are synthesized in dedicated cells or tissues …

Molecular dissection of an intronic enhancer governing cold-induced expression of the vacuolar invertase gene in potato

X Zhu, A Chen, NM Butler, Z Zeng, H **n, L Wang… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the third most important food crop in the world. Potato tubers
must be stored at cold temperatures to minimize sprouting and losses due to disease …

Incorporation of nitrogen in antinutritional Solanum alkaloid biosynthesis

D Grzech, SJ Smit, RM Alam, M Boccia… - Nature Chemical …, 2025 - nature.com
Steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGAs) are specialized metabolites produced by hundreds of
Solanum species including food crops, such as tomato, potato and eggplant. Unlike true …