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Collaborative project: Creation of tools for Genomic selection in potato. Subproject 2: field tests and establishment of new phenotyping methods (PotatoTools)
Project
Project code: 2219NR127
Contract period: 15.04.2019
- 14.04.2022
Purpose of research: Applied research
The potato is the third most important staple food in the world with a lot of harvest of more than 380 million tons. The potato is also important for the starch and chemical industry. Despite the great importance, only a low breeding progress was realized for quantitative characteristics, such as, for example, tuber yield, in the past. This is particularly evident when compared with those in corn, wheat and rice breeding progress realized in potato. The reasons for this are that potato breeders must take into account a large number of features during the breeding process. Through the Autotetraploidie of the potato are also complex dominance situations in highly heterozygotem genetic material. In addition, the low multiplication factor plays an important role. Modern methods of predictive breeding can expect a higher breeding progress in quantitatively inherited characteristics, such as, for example, starch yield. However, to use the predictive breeding, the development of genomic resources and breeding-methodological considerations for the optimized application of the new methods are essential. Current breeding material from starch potato breeding programs of the three participating companies will be tested in a total of twelve field test environments and forms the basis for the estimation of quantitative genetic parameters in the model calculations incorporated. A part of this breeding material is resequenziert, together with historically important European potato varieties and is therefore used to identify sequence polymorphisms, which are necessary for the development of the SNP array. Essential tools for use in predictive breeding available are German potato growers so that project ended.
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- Crop Production
- Plant Breeding
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Associated projects: PotatoTools
- Collaborative project: Creation of tools for Genomic selection in potato. Subproject 1: Genomic diversity and development of statistical methods for Genomic selection. Coordination
- Collaborative project: Creation of tools for Genomic selection in potato. Subproject 3: field tests and establishment of new phenotyping methods
- Collaborative project: Creation of tools for Genomic selection in potato. Subproject 4: field tests and establishment of new phenotyping methods
