Inheritance of steroidal glycoalkaloids in potato tuber flesh
2019
Peng, Zhen | Wang, Pei | TANG, Die | Shang, Yi | LI, Can-hui | HUANG, San-wen | ZHANG, Chun-zhi
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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