This book describes the historical importance of potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.),potato genetic resources and stocks (including S. tuberosum group Phureja DM1-3 516 R44, a unique doubled monoploid homozygous line) used for potato genome sequencing. It also discusses strategies and tools for high-throughput sequencing, sequence assembly, annotation, analysis, repetitive sequences and genotyping-by-sequencing approaches. Potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.; 2n = 4x = 48) is the fourth most important food crop of the world after rice, wheat and maize and holds great potential to ensure both food and nutritional security. It is an autotetraploid crop with complex genetics, acute inbreeding depression and a highly heterozygous nature. Further, the book examines the recent discovery of whole genome sequencing of a few wild potato species genomes, genomics in management and genetic enhancement of Solanum species, new strategies towards durable potato late blight resistance, structural analysis of resistance genes, genomics resources for abiotic stress management, as well as somatic cell genetics and modern approaches in true-potato-seed technology. The complete genome sequence provides a better understanding of potato biology, underpinning evolutionary process, genetics, breeding and molecular efforts to improve various important traits involved in potato growth and development.

The Historical, Social and Economic Importance of the Potato Crop

Potato Genetic Resources
History of potato breeding: Improvement, diversification, and diversity
Genetic Stocks Used for Potato Genome Sequencing
Strategies and Tools for Sequencing and Assembly of Plant Genomes
High-throughput Sequencing of the Potato Genome
The Wild Side of Potato: Insights into The Genome Sequence of the Stress-Tolerant S. commersonii Dun
Genomics in Management and Genetic Enhancement of Potato Germplasm
Repetitive Sequences in The Potato and Related Genomes
New Strategies Towards Durable Late Blight Resistance in Potato
Genomics Approaches for Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Potato
Genomics resources for abiotic stresses in Solanum (potato) species
Somatic Cell Genetics and Its Application in Potato Breeding
Structural Analysis of Resistance (R) Genes in Potato (Solanum species) genome
Genotyping by sequencing in potato
Genomics in true potato seed (TPS) technology: Engineering cloning through seeds.