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Research Project: Maximizing the Impact of Potato Genebank Resources: Development and Evaluation of a Wild Species Genotype Diversity Panel

Location: Vegetable Crops Research

Title: Are diploid potatoes in your future?

Author
item Bethke, Paul
item JANSKY, SHELLEY

Submitted to: Spudman
Publication Type: Trade Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/1/2020
Publication Date: 3/1/2020
Citation: Bethke, P.C., Jansky, S.H. 2020. Are diploid potatoes in your future?. Spudman. 58(3):24-26.

Interpretive Summary: This article describes how diploid potatoes differ from conventional potatoes and how those differences may benefit the potato industry.

Technical Abstract: Improved potato varieties are a long-standing goal of the potato industry. One proposed way to generate improved varieties is through diploid breeding. In this article, the process of generating diploid potatoes is illustrated by way of an analogy. Specific benefits and potential limitations of diploid breeding are also described. Benefits include systematic enrichment for useful genes, the ability to make uniform hybrid lines from inbred diploid lines, the ability of incrementally improve existing hybrids, and the ability of use true seed for multiplication of new lines.