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Potato Haploids and Breeding

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Advances in Haploid Production in Higher Plants

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L. ssp. tuberosum) was one of the first crop plants in which haploid techniques were used to improve cultivar breeding programmes. These new breeding tools were introduced towards the end of the 1950s but have not totally replaced the conventional breeding of potato at the tetraploid (2n = 4x) level. Generally (di)haploid (2n = 2x) lines are produced by pollination of cultivated potato and related Solanum species with specific haploid inducer clones of S. phureja or alternatively by anther culture in vitro. The resultant clones provide excellent material for the subsequent reconstitution of the polyploid hybrids having maximized heterozygosity levels. Therefore the haploids have a considerably significant role in the potato breeding programmes of quite a few companies. Certain valuable haploid techniques, such as anther culture and somatic hybridization, are quite complex and highly genotype dependent and thus are less readily put into practise. There is an important application for use of haploids in interspecific hybridization to overcome incompatibility barriers caused by the differences in ploidy levels and endosperm balance numbers. Thus, the gene pool of the potato can be broadened and certain valuable traits such as disease resistance characters from the wild solanaceous species can be more efficiently introgressed into cultivated potato.

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Rokka, V.M. (2009). Potato Haploids and Breeding. In: Touraev, A., Forster, B.P., Jain, S.M. (eds) Advances in Haploid Production in Higher Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8854-4_17

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