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Title: In potato breeding, fewer chromosomes may be better

Author
item Jansky, Shelley

Submitted to: Spudman
Publication Type: Trade Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/1/2017
Publication Date: 12/15/2017
Citation: Jansky, S.H. 2017. In potato breeding, fewer chromosomes may be better. Spudman. Nov/Dec 2017:38-39.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: The autotetraploid nature of the potato crop hinders breeding progress. In this paper, I describe the advantages of moving to a diploid inbred-hybrid system. This will allow us to reduce the genetic load in potato while assembling desirable combinations of genes. This effort requires us to generate dihaploids and then inbreed them using a mutation in the self-incompatibility system.