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Inheritance of steroidal glycoalkaloids in potato tuber flesh
PENG Zhen, WANG Pei, TANG Die, SHANG Yi, LI Can-hui, HUANG San-wen, ZHANG Chun-zhi
2019, 18 (10): 2255-2263.   DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(19)62718-8
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Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the third most important food crop worldwide after wheat and rice in terms of human consumption.  A critical domestication trait for potato was the decrease of toxic steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGAs) in tuber flesh.  Here, we used a diploid F2 segregating population derived from a cross between S. tuberosum and the wild potato species Solanum chacoense to map the quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with the regulation of SGAs content in tuber flesh.  In a three-year study, we identified two QTLs on chromosomes 2 and 8 affecting SGAs content in tuber flesh.  The QTL on chromosome 8 harbors 38 genes that are co-expressed with the GLYCOALKALOID METABOLISM genes.  These findings lay the foundation for exploiting the genes controlling SGAs content in tuber flesh and they provide a theoretical basis for the use of wild germplasm in potato breeding.
 
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