Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Hybrid origins of cultivated potatoes

  • Original Paper
  • Published:
Theoretical and Applied Genetics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Solanum section Petota is taxonomically difficult, partly because of interspecific hybridization at both the diploid and polyploid levels. The taxonomy of cultivated potatoes is particularly controversial. Using DNA sequence data of the waxy gene, we here infer relationships among the four species of cultivated potatoes accepted in the latest taxonomic treatment (S. ajanhuiri, S. curtilobum, S. juzepczukii and S. tuberosum, the latter divided into the Andigenum and Chilotanum Cultivar Groups). The data support prior ideas of hybrid origins of S. ajanhuiri from the S. tuberosum Andigenum Group (2x = S. stenotomum) × S. megistacrolobum; S. juzepczukii from the S. tuberosum Andigenum Group (2x = S. stenotomum) × S. acaule; and S. curtilobum from the S. tuberosum Andigenum Group (4x = S. tuberosum subsp. andigenum) × S. juzepczukii. For the tetraploid cultivar-groups of S. tuberosum, hybrid origins are suggested entirely within much more closely related species, except for two of three examined accessions of the S. tuberosum Chilotanum Group that appear to have hybridized with the wild species S. maglia. Hybrid origins of the crop/weed species S. sucrense are more difficult to support and S. vernei is not supported as a wild species progenitor of the S. tuberosum Andigenum Group.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Adams KL, Wendel JF (2005) Novel patterns of gene expression in polyploid plants. Trends Genet 21:539–543

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Adams KL, Percifield R, Wendel JF (2004) Organ-specific silencing of duplicated genes in a newly synthesized cotton allotetraploid. Genetics 168:2217–2226

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Adiwilaga KD, Brown CR (1991) Use of 2n pollen-producing triploid hybrids to introduce tetraploid Mexican wild species germ plasm to cultivated tetraploid potato gene pool. Theor Appl Genet 81:645–662

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Alvarez NMB, Peralta IE, Salas A, Spooner DM (2008) A morphological study of species boundaries of the wild potato Solanum brevicaule complex: replicated field trials in Peru. Plant Syst Evol 274:37–45

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ames M, Spooner DM (2008) DNA from herbarium specimens settles a controversy about origins of the European potato. Am J Bot 95:252–257

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Astley D, Hawkes JG (1979) The nature of the Bolivian weed potato species Solanum sucrense Hawkes. Euphytica 28:685–696

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baum DA (2007) Concordance trees, concordance factors, and the exploration of reticulate genealogy. Taxon 56:417–426

    Google Scholar 

  • Bradshaw J, Bryan G, Ramsay G (2006) Genetic resources (including wild and cultivated Solanum species) and progress in their utilisation in potato breeding. Potato Res 49:49–65

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brickell CD, Alexander C, David JC, Hetterscheid WLA, Leslie AC, Malecot V, Jin X (2009) International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, 8th edn. Scripta Hort 10:1–204

    Google Scholar 

  • Brücher H (1964) El origen de la papa (Solanum tuberosum): nuevas consideraciones sobre un antiguo problema. Physis 68:439–452

    Google Scholar 

  • Bukasov SM (1971) Cultivated potato species. In: Bukasov SM (ed) Flora of cultivated plants, vol IX. Kolos, Leningrad, Russia, pp 5–40

    Google Scholar 

  • Camadro EL, Espinillo JC (1990) Germplasm transfer from the wild tetraploid species Solanum acaule Bitt. to the cultivated potato S. tuberosum L. using 2n eggs. Am Potato J 67:737–749

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Carputo D, Barone A (2005) Ploidy manipulations in potato through sexual hybridization. Ann Appl Biol 146:71–79

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Carputo D, Barone A, Frusciante L (2000) 2n gametes in the potato: essential ingredients for breeding and germplasm transfer. Theor Appl Genet 101:805–813

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Carputo D, Frusciante L, Peloquin SJ (2003a) The role of 2n gametes and endosperm balance number in the origin and evolution of polyploids in the tuber-bearing Solanums. Genetics 163:287–294

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Carputo D, Parisi M, Consiglio F, Iovene M, Caruso G, Monti L, Frusciante L (2003b) Aneuploid hybrids from 5x–4x crosses in potato: chromosome number, fertility, morphology and yield. Am J Potato Res 80:93–101

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Darmo E, Peloquin SJ (1990) Performance and stability of nine tetraploid clones from tetraploid-diploid crosses and four commercial cultivars. Potato Res 33:357–364

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • De Maine M, Carroll CP, Torrance CJW (1993) Culinary quality of tubers derived from Solanum phureja and S. tuberosum × S. phureja hybrids. J Agric Sci 120:213–217

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dodds KS (1962) Classification of cultivated potatoes. In: Correll (ed) The potato and its wild relatives. Vol 4. Contributions from the Texas Research Foundation, Botanical Studies, Texas, pp 517–539

  • Ducreux LJM, Morris WL, Prosser IM, Morris JA, Beale MH, Wright F, Shepherd T, Bryan GJ, Hedley PE, Taylor MA (2008) Expression profiling of potato germplasm differentiated in quality traits leads to the identification of candidate flavour and texture genes. J Exp Bot 59:4219–4231

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Farris JS (1970) Methods for computing Wagner trees. Syst Zool 19:83–92

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Felsenstein J (1973) Maximum likelihood and minimum-steps methods for estimating evolutionary trees from data on discrete characters. Syst Zool 22:240–249

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Flagel L, Udall J, Nettleton D, Wendell J (2008) Duplicate gene expression in allopolyploid Gossypium reveals two temporally distinct phases of expression evolution. BMC Biol 6:16

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Grun P (1990) The evolution of the cultivated potatoes. Econ Bot 44(Suppl 3):39–55

    Google Scholar 

  • Hanneman RE Jr (1994) Assignment of endosperm balance numbers to the tuber-bearing Solanums and their close non-tuber-bearing relatives. Euphytica 74:19–25

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hawkes JG (1990) The potato: evolution, biodiversity and genetic resources. Belhaven Press, Oxford, UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Hijmans RJ, Jacobs M, Bamberg JB, Spooner DM (2003) Frost tolerance in wild potato species: assessing the predictivity of taxonomic, geographic, and ecological factors. Euphytica 130:47–59

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hosaka K (2002) Distribution of the 241 bp deletion of chloroplast DNA in wild potato species. Am J Potato Res 79:119–123

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hosaka K (2003) T-type chloroplast DNA in Solanum tuberosum L. ssp. tuberosum was conferred from some populations of S. tarijense Hawkes. Am J Potato Res 80:21–32

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hovav R, Chaudhary B, Udall JA, Flagel L, Wendel JF (2008a) Parallel domestication, convergent evolution and duplicated gene recruitment in allopolyploid cotton. Genetics 179:1725–1733

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Hovav R, Udall JA, Chaudhary B, Rapp R, Flagel L, Wendel JF (2008b) Partitioned expression of duplicated genes during development and evolution of a single cell in a polyploid plant. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:6191–6195

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Huamán Z, Spooner DM (2002) Reclassification of landrace populations of cultivated potatoes (Solanum sect. Petota). Am J Bot 89:947–965

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Huelsenbeck JP, Ronquist F (2001) MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics 17:754–755

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Johns T, Alonso JG (1990) Glycoalkaloid change during the domestication of the potato, Solanum section Petota. Euphytica 50:203–210

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Johnston SA, Hanneman RE Jr (1982) Manipulations of endosperm balance number overcome crossing barriers between diploid Solanum species. Science 217:446–448

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lechnovich VS (1971) Cultivated potato species. In: Bukasov SM (ed) Flora of cultivated plants, Chap 2, vol IX. Kolos, Leningrad, pp 41–304

    Google Scholar 

  • Maddison DR, Maddison WP (2001) MacClade 4.03: Analysis of phylogeny and character evolution, v. 4.08. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland

    Google Scholar 

  • Madlung A, Tyagi AP, Watson B, Jiang H, Kagochi T, Doerge RW, Martienssen R, Comai L (2005) Genomic changes in synthetic Arabidopsis polyploids. Plant J 41:221–230

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • McNeill J, Barrie FR, Burdet HM, Demoulin V, Hawksworth DL, Marhold K, Nicolson DH, Prado J, Silva PC, Skog JE, Wiersema JH, Turland NJ (2006) International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code). Regnum Veg 146:1–568

    Google Scholar 

  • Mendiburu AO, Peloquin SJ (1977) Bilateral sexual polyploidization in potatoes. Euphytica 26:573–583

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Miller JT, Spooner DM (1999) Collapse of species boundaries in the Solanum brevicaule complex (Solanaceae: S. sect. Petota): molecular data. Plant Syst Evol 214:103–130

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Morris WL, Ross HA, Ducreux JM, Bradshaw J, Bryan GJ, Taylor MA (2007) Umami compounds are a determinant of the flavor of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). J Agric Food Chem 55:9627–9633

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Morris WL, Ducreux LJM, Bryan GJ, Taylor MA (2008) Molecular dissection of sensory traits in the potato tuber. Am J Potato Res 85:286–297

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Müller KF (2005) SeqState-primer design and sequence statistics for phylogenetic DNA data sets. Appl Bioinform 4:65–69

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ochoa CM (1990) The potatoes of South America: Bolivia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Ochoa CM (1999) Las papas de Sudamerica: Perú. Centro International de La Papa (CIP), Lima, Perú

  • Olmstead RG, Palmer JD (1994) Chloroplast DNA and systematics: a review of methods and data analysis. Am J Bot 81:1205–1224

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ortiz R (1998) Potato breeding via ploidy manipulations. Plant Breed Rev 16:15–86

    Google Scholar 

  • Ortiz R, Freyre R, Peloquin SJ, Iwanaga M (1991) Adaptation to day length and yield stability of families from tetraploid × diploid crosses in potato. Euphytica 56:187–195

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Peloquin SJ, Boiteux LS, Carputo D (1999) Meiotic mutants in potato: valuable variants. Genetics 153:1493–1499

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Pendinen G, Gavrilenko T, Jiang J, Spooner DM (2008) Allopolyploid speciation of the tetraploid Mexican potato species S. stoloniferum and S. hjertingii revealed by genomic in situ hybridization. Genome 51:714–772

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Peralta IE, Spooner DM (2001) GBSSI gene phylogeny of wild tomatoes (Solanum L. section Lycopersicon [Mill.] Wettst. subsection Lycopersicon). Am J Bot 88:1888–1902

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Plaisted RL, Hoopes RW (1989) The past record and future prospects for the use of exotic potato germplasm. Am Potato J 66:603–627

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Posada D, Crandall KA (1998) MODELTEST: testing the model of DNA substitution. Bioinformatics 14:817–818

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Raker C, Spooner DM (2002) The Chilean tetraploid cultivated potato, Solanum tuberosum, is distinct from the Andean populations; microsatellite data. Crop Sci 42:1451–1458

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rios D, Ghislain M, Rodríguez F, Spooner DM (2007) What is the origin of the European potato? Evidence from Canary Island landraces. Crop Sci 47:1271–1280

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Rodríguez F, Spooner DM (2009) Nitrate reductase phylogeny of potato (Solanum sect. Petota) genomes with emphasis on the origins of the polyploid species. Syst Bot 34:207–219

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rodríguez F, Wu F, Ané C, Tanksley S, Spooner DM (2009) Do potatoes and tomatoes have a single evolutionary history, and what proportion of the genome supports this history? BMC Evol Biol 9:191

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Ronquist F, Huelsenbeck JP (2003) MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models. Bioinformatics 19:1572–1574

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Simmons MP, Ochoterena H (2000) Gaps as characters in sequence-based phylogenetic analyses. Syst Biol 49:369–381

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Spooner DM (2009) DNA barcoding will frequently fail in complicated groups: an example in wild potatoes. Am J Bot 96:1177–1189

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Spooner DM, Castillo R (1997) Reexamination of series relationships of South American wild potatoes (Solanaceae: Solanum sect. Petota): evidence from chloroplast DNA restriction site variation. Am J Bot 84:671–685

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Spooner DM, van den Berg RG (1992) An analysis of recent taxonomic concepts in wild potatoes (Solanum sect. Petota). Gen Res Crop Evol 39:23–37

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Spooner DM, Anderson GJ, Jansen RK (1993) Chloroplast DNA evidence for the interrelationships of tomatoes, potatoes, and pepinos (Solanaceae). Am J Bot 80:676–688

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Spooner DM, McLean K, Ramsay G, Waugh R, Bryan GJ (2005) A single domestication for potato based on multilocus AFLP genotyping. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:14694–14699

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Spooner DM, Fajardo D, Bryan GJ (2007a) Species limits of Solanum berthaultii Hawkes and S. tarijense Hawkes and the implications for species boundaries in Solanum sect. Petota. Taxon 56:987–999

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Spooner DM, Núñez J, Trujillo G, del Rosario Herrera M, Guzmán F, Ghislain M (2007b) Extensive simple sequence repeat genotyping of potato landraces supports a major reevaluation of their gene pool structure and classification. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:19398–19403

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Spooner DM, Rodríguez F, Polgár Z, Ballard Jr HE, Jansky SH (2008) Genomic origins of potato polyploids: waxy gene sequencing data. Plant Genome Suppl Crop Sci 48(S1):S27–S36

    Google Scholar 

  • Spooner DM, Ames M, Fajardo D, Rodríguez F (2009) Species boundaries and interrelationships of Solanum sect. Petota (wild and cultivated potatoes) are drastically altered as a result of PBI-funded research. Botany and Mycology 2009 Meeting Abstracts. http://2009.botanyconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=24

  • Staden R (1996) The Staden sequence analysis package. Mol Biotechnol 5:233–241

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Swofford DL (2002) PAUP*: Phylogenetic analysis using parsimony (*and other methods). Version 4.0b3a PPC. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland

    Google Scholar 

  • Tai GCC (1976) Estimation of general and specific combining abilities in potato. Can J Genet Cytol 18:463–470

    Google Scholar 

  • Thompson JD, Gibson TJ, Plewniak F, Jeanmougin F, Higgins DG (1997) The ClustalX windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools. Nucleic Acids Res 24:4876–4882

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ugent D (1970) The potato. Science 179:1161–1166

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Van den Berg RG, Miller JT, Ugarte ML, Kardolus JP, Villand J, Nienhuis J, Spooner DM (1998) Collapse of morphological species in the wild potato Solanum brevicaule complex (Solanaceae: sect. Petota). Am J Bot 85:92–109

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wang J, Tian L, Madlung A, Lee H-S, Chen M, Lee JJ, Watson B, Kagochi T, Comai L, Chen ZJ (2004) Stochastic and epigenetic changes of gene expression in Arabidopsis polyploids. Genetics 167:1961–1973

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Watanabe K, Peloquin SJ, Endo M (1991) Genetic significance of mode of polyploidization: somatic doubling or 2n gametes? Genome 34:28–34

    Google Scholar 

  • Werner JE, Peloquin SJ (1991) Significance of allelic diversity and 2n gametes for approaching maximum heterozygosity in 4x potatoes. Euphytica 58:21–29

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Winfield M, Lloyd D, Griffiths W, Bradshaw J, Muir D, Nevison I, Bryan G (2005) Assessing organoleptic attributes of Solanum tuberosum and S. phureja potatoes. Aspects Appl Biol 76:127–135

    Google Scholar 

  • Yang Z, Rannala B (1997) Bayesian phylogenetic inference using DNA sequences: a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method. Mol Biol Evol 14:717–724

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Zwickl DJ (2006) Genetic algorithm approaches for the phylogenetic analysis of large biological sequence datasets under the maximum likelihood criterion. Ph.D. thesis. The University of Texas, Austin

Download references

Acknowledgments

This study was supported by NSF DEB 0316614 entitled PBI Solanum: a worldwide treatment (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/researchcuration/projects/solanaceaesource//) to DS and by the USDA National Research Initiative Grant 2008-35300-18669 to DS.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, 1575 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, 53706-1590, USA

    Flor Rodríguez, Shelley H. Jansky & David M. Spooner

  2. Applied Biotechnology Laboratory, International Potato Center CIP, Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Office, P.O. Box 25171, Nairobi, 00603, Kenya

    Marc Ghislain

  3. Estación Experimental Agropecuaria, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), C.C. 276, 7620, Balcarce, Argentina

    Andrea M. Clausen

Authors
  1. Flor Rodríguez
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Marc Ghislain
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Andrea M. Clausen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Shelley H. Jansky
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. David M. Spooner
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to David M. Spooner.

Additional information

Communicated by G. Bryan.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Rodríguez, F., Ghislain, M., Clausen, A.M. et al. Hybrid origins of cultivated potatoes. Theor Appl Genet 121, 1187–1198 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-010-1422-6

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-010-1422-6

Keywords

Search

Navigation