Scientific Name Solanum tuberosum
Common Name potatoes; Solanum tuberosum subsp. tuberosum;
Taxonomy ID 4113
Lineage cellular organisms > Viridiplantae > Streptophyta > Streptophytina > Embryophyta > Tracheophyta > Euphyllophyta > Spermatophyta > Magnoliophyta > Mesangiospermae > eudicotyledons > Gunneridae > Pentapetalae > asterids > lamiids > Solanales > Solanaceae > Solanoideae > Solaneae > Solanum
External Links NCBI; EBI; JGI; PLAZA; Specialized Database
Representative Assembly SolTub_3.0 GCF_000226075.1 DNA GFF RNA Protein
Description:

Solanum tuberosum, potato, is a popular vegetable in the world. It is therefore economically and socially very significant. It is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following maize, wheat, and rice. The potato was originally believed to have been domesticated independently in multiple locations, but later genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species proved a single origin for potatoes in the area of present-day southern Peru and extreme northwestern Bolivia (from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex), where they were domesticated approximately 7,000–10,000 years ago. Development of underground tubers in potato makes it an interesting plant to study. It belongs to the family Solanaceae, an agriculturally important group which includes tomato, pepper, egg plant, tobacco, and petunia.Commercial S. tuberosum is a heterozygous autotetraploid carrying genes from at least 11 different solanum species (Wolters et al and Gebhardt,C et al., (1989) Theor Appl Genet 78:16-22.). Diploid varieties have been used for genetic mapping. S. tuberosum has a genome size of about 840Mb with a haploid chromosome number of 12. Because of the tetraploid nature, very little is known about the genetics of qualitative and quantitative agronomic traits of this crop. The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium has submitted a collection of WGS scaffolds.