A team of researchers in China, the Netherlands, and the US has assembled multiple high-quality genomes from 24 wild and 20 cultivated potato varieties
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Netherlands
United States
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Published Jun 10, 2022
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China working with one colleague from the Netherlands and two from the U.S. has assembled 44 high-quality genomes from 24 wild and 20 cultivated potato varieties. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their sequencing of potato varieties and subsequent analysis. Juanita Gutiérrez-Valencia and Tanja Slotte, with Stockholm University, have published a News & Views piece in the same journal issue outlining the work and explaining why such studies have become more important in recent years.
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China working with one colleague from the Netherlands and two from the U.S. has assembled 44 high-quality genomes from 24 wild and 20 cultivated potato varieties. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their sequencing of potato varieties and subsequent analysis. Juanita Gutiérrez-Valencia and Tanja Slotte, with Stockholm University have published a News & Views piece in the same journal issue outlining the work and explaining why such studies have become more important in recent years. As Gutiérrez-Valencia and Slotte note, potatoes are the third-most consumed crop in the world, behind only wheat and rice. That makes them "the world's most important non-cereal food crop," ...
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