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Major Paradigm Shifts in Potato Breeding

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Potato is the third most important food crop after wheat and rice, and India is the second largest producer of potatoes after China. Globally all breeding efforts in potato were directed at tetraploid levels and are primarily based on biparental crossing followed by selection. The major constrains in potato breeding are autopolyploid inheritance and heterozygous nature of the crop. Earlier attempts to develop homozygous parental lines at the diploid level failed due to high inbreeding depression and self-incompatibility. The homozygosity in diploids by inbreeding is expected to be much faster than tetraploids, but the only issue was self-incompatibility. The occurrence of natural self-incompatibility inhibitors, i.e., sli gene in different wild/semi-cultivated species, has paved the way for developing diploid homozygous parental lines for further exploitation of hybrid vigour. Now many firms including Solynta are in advanced stage of trialing and release of diploid inbred lines with yields equivalent to tetraploid potato varieties. These results have set an agenda to all potato R&D institutions to bred and release diploid potato varieties with favourable alleles of genomic and economic interests. Besides, marker-assisted breeding, genomic selection and genome editing are other important tools reshaping the conventional breeding in potatoes.

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Sood, S., Bhardwaj, V., Sundaresha, S. (2020). Major Paradigm Shifts in Potato Breeding. In: Gosal, S., Wani, S. (eds) Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47298-6_1

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