As the global threat of climate change continues to jeopardize sustainable food supplies, a new initiative led by scientists from McGill University in Montreal, QC is set to potentially change the future of potatoes.
Professor Martina Strömvik and her team have unveiled a cutting-edge “super potato” pangenome aimed at identifying genetic traits that could usher in the era of the next super spud.
“Our super pangenome sheds light on the potato’s genetic diversity and what kinds of genetic traits could potentially be bred into our modern-day crop to make it better,” Strömvik said in a statement.
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“It represents 60 species and is the most extensive collection of genome sequence data for the potato and its relatives to date,” Strömvik adds.
A genome, often referred to as an organism’s complete set of genetic instructions, is the foundation of this project. A…