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Toward the Design of Potato Tolerant to Abiotic Stress

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Potato is a major global crop that has an important role to play in food security, reducing poverty and improving human nutrition. Productivity in potato however is limited in many environments by its sensitivity to abiotic stresses such as elevated temperature, drought, frost, and salinity. In this chapter we focus on the effects of elevated temperature on potato yields as high temperature is the most important uncontrollable factor affecting growth and yield of potato. We describe some of the physiological impacts of elevated temperature and review recent findings about response mechanisms. We describe genetic approaches that could be used to identify allelic variants of genes that may be useful to breed for increased climate resilience, an approach that could be deployed with recent advances in potato breeding.

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This work was funded by the Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division as part of the Strategic Research Programme 2016–2021 and also received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement number 835704, and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 862858.

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    Raymond Campbell, Laurence J. M. Ducreux, Elena Mellado-Ortega, Robert D. Hancock & Mark A. Taylor

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Campbell, R., Ducreux, L.J.M., Mellado-Ortega, E., Hancock, R.D., Taylor, M.A. (2021). Toward the Design of Potato Tolerant to Abiotic Stress. In: Dobnik, D., Gruden, K., Ramšak, Ž., Coll, A. (eds) Solanum tuberosum. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2354. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1609-3_19

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