ANNUAL  REPORT

Calendar Year 2008

 

 

 

 

1.   NRSP-6:  UNITED STATES POTATO GENEBANK    

           

Introduction, Classification, Preservation, Evaluation and Distribution of tuber-bearing  Solanum Species.

 

 

2.   COOPERATIVE AGENCIES AND PRINCIPAL LEADERS

 

State Agricultural Experimental Stations                            

Representative

 

 

Technical Representatives

 

 

 

Southern Region                                           

J. C. Miller, Jr.

Western Region                                       Vice Chair (2009)

I. Vales

North Central Region                              Chairman   (2009)

D. S. Douches  

Northeastern Region                                Secretary   (2009)

W. De Jong

 

 

Administrative Advisors

 

 

Southern Region

R. Guthrie

Western Region                                        Lead  AA

C. Y. Hu 

North Central Region                                     

M. Jahn

Northeastern Region

E. Ashworth

 

United States Department of Agriculture 

  

Agricultural Research Service

 

 

      Technical Representative                        

C. R. Brown

      National Program Staff

P. K. Bretting

G. C. Wisler

      Area Director, Midwest Area

 

L. Chandler

Cooperative States Research Education & Extension Service

 

A. M. Thro

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

 

M. D. Bandla

NRSP-6   Project Leader

J. B. Bamberg

 

 

Agriculture Canada

B. Bizimungu  

 


3.  PROGRESS AND PRINCIPAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

 

A.    Introduction of New Stocks

 

John Bamberg, Alfonso del Rio and Charles Fernandez (US Potato Genebank) had a successful collecting expedition to the Pinaleno Mountains in southeastern Arizona (about 75 miles northeast of Tucson) in late September of 2008 (supported with extramural funding from USDA).  They collected 15 new populations.  Fruit were harvested on 12 of the collections and live plants were collected for three of the populations, which were later crossed and true seed was produced.

 

A total of 99 accessions were assigned PI numbers in 2008, with 76 as true seed:  eight Bolivian accessions from Spooner's 1993-4 collection trip, 68 accessions from the Polish seed rescue of VIR stocks and 15 accessions collected in Arizona in 2008.  Eight accessions were added to the tissue culture collection:  three varieties from South Korea, three S locus genetic stocks from Japan, two haploid inducers, and one primitive cultivar from Peru.

 

The NRSP-6 web page (http://www.ars-grin.gov/nr6) has been updated to include all new stocks and screening information.  Clients who have ordered from NRSP-6 in the past four years are contacted three times per year informing them of new materials that are now available either as true seed, tubers, in vitro plantlets, or herbarium samples. 

 

B.  Preservation and Evaluation of Stocks

 

In 2008, a total of 221 accessions were increased as botanical seed populations.

 

A total of 693 potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) tests were performed on seed increase parents, seedlots and research materials.  Germination tests were performed for 1497 accessions, ploidy determinations for 21, and tetrazolium seed viability tests for eight.

 

In cooperation with J. Palta (UW-Madison), it was found that low-cost calcium applications in the highlands of Peru result in a yield increase of 60% for some cultivars.  Dr. del Rio began work on identifying DNA markers associated with the calcium response trait.  We also received an NRI grant (with cooperators J. Palta, S. Jansky, and M. Havey from UW-Madison) for related work on high tuber calcium genetics and introgression using S. microdontum hybrids we developed.

 

We continued screening for antioxidants and anti-tumor components with USDA cooperator R. Navarre (USDA-Prosser) and J.C. Miller, Jr. (TAMU).  Some extremely high phenolic clones were found in S. phureja/stenotomum and extracts of S. jamesii were found to inhibit colon and prostate cancer.  We documented and reported remarkable eight-year dormancy of S. jamesii tubers from stocks we collected from New Mexico.

 

C.  Classification

 

Dr. Spooner et al. have published and are working on five different areas of potato research:  1) molecular markers for genebank studies, 2) cultivated potato origins, 3) relationships in wild tomatoes  and potatoes, 4) the predictive power of taxonomy relative to disease resistance data, and 5) a linkage map for late blight resistance in wild potatoes.

 

 

D.  Distribution

 

The volume and types of stocks sent to various consignee categories are summarized in the table below.  NRSP-6 distributed 168 orders to clients in 30 states of the USA and 30 orders to 14 other countries. 

 

 

Units of Germplasm Sent1

 

Category

     S

  TF

 TC

IVS

DNA

PL

HER

 Total

    PIs

Domestic

1,854

565

1121

     366

0

5

0

3,902

3,559

Foreign

631

91

28

1,033

3

0

0

1,786

  870

Total

2,476

656

1149

1,399

3

5

0

5,688

4,429

 

1 Types of stocks sent/(number of seeds, tubers or plantlets per standard shipping unit):  S= True Seeds/(50),  TF= Tuber Families/(10), 

   TC=Tuber Clones/(3), IVS=In Vitro Stocks/(1), DNA=DNA samples/(1), PL=Plants in plugs/(1), Her= Herbarium/(1).

 

 

4.  IMPACT STATEMENT

 

Potato is the number one US and world vegetable in terms of production, value, and consumption.  Considering its high satiety index and palatability, and its balanced protein, wide adaptability, and high productivity, it will play an increasingly important role in providing food security in developing countries and delivering new health-promoting nutrients to the diets of developed countries.  Such food and health benefits carry with them a great economic impact, even in areas where potatoes are not grown.  For example, if people in the US consumed adequate potassium, an estimated 100K lives and $12B in annual healthcare costs would be saved.  Potato, already a high-potassium food, is well positioned to make a substantial contribution through genetic improvement.  NRSP-6, as the world’s most diverse and available source of new genes and germplasm information, is best positioned to support such contributions. 

 

Beyond providing stocks, NRSP-6 staff members are involved in discovering and developing associated germplasm tools and information.  Among these are self compatibility, gibberellin, and 2n gamete mutants; cut-stem pollination, hormone pre-treatment of seeds for better germination, haploid- extracting pollinators, and 2n gamete breeding technique.  Yukon Gold, one of the most popular and name-recognized tablestock cultivars, has S. phureja 195198, an exotic cultivated species from NRSP-6 as a grandparent, and was bred using the 2n gamete technique. 

 

Evaluation for a wide variety of useful traits has also been designed, contracted and documented by staff.  Such work is the foundation for deploying exotic genes in new cultivars.  One recent example is the release of cultivar PA99N82-4 bred with the Mexican wild species S. bulbocastanum from NRSP-6.  It has high resistance to nematodes that can only be controlled by fumigation at an estimated cost of  $20M per year, not counting the “cost” in risks to human and environmental health posed by use of toxic chemicals. 

 

The genebank goal is maximum diversity.   But because funds for collecting, preserving, distributing and evaluating are limited, reaching that goal depends on maximizing efficiency through quality control and technology R&D.  Thus, we collaborate with other world genebanks to study the partitioning and vulnerability of diversity in our collections.  Examples of impact of this area are the intergenebank potato database, identification of more diversity-intense sites for future collecting, and confirming that the rare alleles within some populations within certain species are not explained by introgression of alleles common in another sympatric species. 

 

One way the overall impact of these contributions can be measured is by the occurrence of NRSP-6 germplasm in the pedigrees of new, improved potato cultivars.  About 70% of all potatoes grown in the United States have germplasm from the genebank in their pedigrees.  Both cultivar releases published in the American Journal of Potato Research in 2008, ‘Premier Russet’ and ‘Dakota Diamond’, have exotic species from NRSP-6 in their pedigrees.  The great-grandmother of the latter is S. chacoense 472812, a wild potato species originally collected in Argentina.

 

Another gauge of impact is in the numerous publications in 2008 providing information that pushes potato science forward.  Section 6 lists 37 papers, 85 abstracts, and 4 theses which report the results of studies associated with NRSP-6 Solanum stocks this year.

 

The impact of the genebank is expected to increase in the future for several reasons.  1)  Mutants discovered and characterized by staff will be increasingly valuable as research models.  2)  Intragenic transformation of potato has now been demonstrated and identified as a kind of GMO much more accepted by the consumer, so useful exotic potato genes will be increasingly valuable as the technology to easily insert them into existing cultivars improves.  3)  Potato is rapidly expanding in large new growing regions, so the need for genetic resources for breeding in new environments and for new tastes will surge.  4)  Loss of wild habitats and other limits on collecting will make it even more important to understand how to efficiently keep what we already have—thus, enhancing the importance of in-house R&D on the partitioning and vulnerability of diversity.  5)  The revolution in electronic information exchange gives NRSP-6 an opportunity to provide more complete and timely germplasm data, advice, and stocks, and detect and develop opportunities for new traits and germplasm applications.  6)  Potato genetic resources will be increasingly mined for nutritional traits that reduce healthcare costs and suffering as evaluation and breeding technology advances.

 

5.  WORK PLANNED FOR 2009

 

Fast and accurate delivery of high quality germplasm and information will continue to be the general objective of NRSP-6.  We also aim to raise awareness of the germplasm resource through an advertising/outreach program, and by conducting and publishing research that demonstrates new ways the germplasm can be useful for potato improvement.  It will be a goal to perform 250 successful seed increases in the upcoming year.

 

Evaluation experiments will continue on Solanum species for these and other traits:  antioxidants, tuber acidity, tuber potassium, frost hardiness, tuber calcium, hormone mutants and anti-cancer compounds.

 

APIC Intergenebank projects, such as researching the status and dynamics of genetic diversity using DNA markers, will strengthen ties with sister genebanks around the world.  Specifically, ongoing joint studies on tuber calcium, frost hardiness, and impact of agrichemicals on reproduction of wild potato populations will continue. 

 

Our plan is to move toward consolidation of R&D into a single major project that encompasses most of our priority goals:  Intergenebank cooperation, detection of how diversity is partitioned and how it is vulnerable, evaluation for useful traits, and emphasis on evaluation for consumer-oriented traits.  These activities will center on S. microdontum, outstanding as a species with extreme and variable expression for many potentially useful traits (pH, potassium, calcium, late blight and soft rot resistance, reproductive mutants, high protein and antioxidants), while being relatively easy to grow and introgress into S. tuberosum.   This is the “MMP” = microdontum multifaceted project.  A multifaceted approach should be more efficient, since multiple evaluations can be done on tubers from one growout, and interactions between traits can be detected.

 

We intend to conduct a collecting expedition for native wild potatoes in the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Arizona.

 

6.  PUBLICATIONS ISSUED DURING THE YEAR 2008

 

 

Publications issued by NRSP-6 Personnel

 

Alvarez, N.M.B., I.E. Peralta, A. Salas, and D.M. Spooner. 2008. A morphological study of species boundaries of the wild potato Solanum brevicaule complex:  replicated field trials in Peru. Pl Syst Evol 274:37-45.

 

Ames, M. and D.M. Spooner. 2008. DNA from herbarium specimens settles a controversy about origins of the European potato. Am J Bot 95(2):252-257. (Additional supplemental data)

 

Ames, M., A. Salas and D.M. Spooner. 2008. A morphometric study of species boundaries of the wild potato Solanum series Piurana (Solanaceae) and putatively related species from seven other series in Solanum sect. Petota. Syst Bot 33:566-578.

 

Bamberg, J.B. 2008. Genetic comparisons of gibberellin mutants in potato. Am J Potato Res 85:2. (Abstract)

 

Bamberg, John and Alfonso H. del Rio. 2008. Proximity and introgression of other potato species does not explain genetic dissimilarity between Solanum verrucosum populations of Northern and Southern Mexico. Am J Potato Res 85:232-238.

 

Bamberg, J.B., C.J. Fernandez, M.W. Martin, and J.J. Pavek. 2008. Tuber dormancy lasting eight years in the wild potato Solanum jamesii. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Bamberg, J.B., M.W. Martin and J.P. Palta. 2008. Variation in Solanum species’ tuber potassium accumulation and its implication for human nutrition. Am J Potato Res 85:2. (Abstract)

 

Belmar-Diaz, C., H. Lozoya-Saldana, M. Salgado, and J. Bamberg. 2008. Phytophthora infestans: races and genotypes in Toluca, Mexico. A two-year update. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Del Rio, A.H. and J.B. Bamberg. 2008. Unbalanced bulk of parent’s seed is not detrimental in potato germplasm regeneration. Am J Potato Res 85:28. (Abstract)

 

Del Rio, A.H., J.B. Bamberg, C. Fernandez, and C. Zorrilla. 2008. Update on the comparative assessment of genetic diversity between accessible and remote potato populations: AFLP analysis of wild potato Solanum stoloniferum (formerly S. fendleri) distributed in SW regions of the USA. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Fajardo, D., R. Castillo, A Salas, and D.M. Spooner. 2008. A morphometric study of species boundaries of the wild potato Solanum series Conicibaccata: a replicated field trial in Andean Peru. Syst Bot 33:183-192.

 

Hale, Anna L., Lavanya Reddivari, M. Ndambe Nzaramba, John B. Bamberg, and J. Creighton Miller, Jr. 2008. Interspecific variability for antioxidant activity and phenolic content among Solanum species. Am J Potato Res 85:332-341.

 

Jansky, S.H., R. Simon and D.M. Spooner. 2008. A test of taxonomic predictivity: resistance to early blight in wild relatives of cultivated potato. Phytopath 98:680-687.

 

Jimenez, J.P., A. Brenes, A. Salas, D. Fajardo, and D.M. Spooner. 2008. The use and limits of AFLP data in the taxonomy of polyploid wild potato species in Solanum series Conicibaccata. Conserv Genet 9:381-387.

 

Nzaramba, M.N., L. Reddivari, J.B. Bamberg, and J.C. Miller Jr. 2008. Phenolic and glycoalkaloid levels of S. jamesii accessions and their anti-proliferative effect on human prostate and colon cancer cells in vitro. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Palta, J.P., J.B. Bamberg and S.E. Vega. 2008. Moving frost hardy genes from wild to cultivated potatoes. Use of precise screening tools to make real progress. Am J Potato Res 85:23. (Abstract)

 

Palta, J.P., J.B. Bamberg and S.E. Vega. 2008. Freezing tolerance of cultivated potatoes: Moving frost hardy genes from wild potatoes and making real progress using precise screening tools. ASHS 2008 Conference, Orlando, Florida. HortSci 43:1108. (Abstract)

 

Palta, J.P., J.B. Bamberg, S.E. Vega, F.M. Navarro, and B. Bowen. 2008. Genetic improvement of potato for tuber calcium uptake. Proceedings of Annual Wisconsin Potato Meetings 21:15-20.

 

Palta, J.P., R. Gomez, A.H. del Rio, W. Roca, J.B. Bamberg, A. Salas, and M. Bonierbale. 2008. Supplemental calcium nutrition may have the potential of improving tuber yield of native potatoes in the Peruvian highlands. Am J Potato Res 85:23. (Abstract)

 

Palta, J.P., F.M. Navarro, J.B. Bamberg, S.E. Vega, and B. Bowen. 2008. The Calcium Solution: Developing potato cultivars with enhanced tuber storage and internal quality by genetic improvement of tuber calcium accumulation ability. The Badger Common ’Tater 60(11):14-16.

 

Pendinen G., T. Gavrilenko, J. Jiang, and D.M. Spooner. 2008. Allopolyploid speciation of the Mexican tetraploid potato species Solanum stoloniferum and S. hjertingii revealed by genomic in situ hybridization. Genome 51:714-720.

 

Peralta, I.E., D.M. Spooner and S. Knapp. 2008. The taxonomy of tomatoes: a revision of wild tomatoes (Solanum section Lycopersicon) and their outgroup relatives in sections Juglandifolium and Lycopersicoides. Syst Bot Monogr 84:1-186+3 plates.

 

Spooner, D.M., D. Fajardo and A. Salas. 2008. Revision of the Solanum medians complex (Solanum sect. Petota). Syst Bot:33:579-588.

 

Spooner, D.M., F. Rodriquez, Z. Polgar, H.E. Ballard Jr., and S.H. Jansky. 2008. Genomic origins of potato polyploids: GBSSI gene sequencing data. The Pl Genome, a Suppl. to Crop Sci. 48(S1):S27-S36.

 

Journal Articles and Abstracts Reporting Research with NRSP-6 Stocks

 

Almasia, N.I., A.A. Bazzini, H.E. Hopp, and C. Vazquez-Rovere. 2008. Over expression of snakin-1 gene enhances resistance to Rhizoctonia solani and Erwinia carotovora in transgenic potato plants. Mol Pl Path 9(3):329-338. (Abstract)

 

Arvin, M.J. and D.J. Donnelly. 2008. Screening potato cultivars and wild species to abiotic stresses using an electrolyte leakage bioassay. J Ag Sci Tech 10(1):33-42. (Abstract)

 

Aversano, R., M.R. Ercolano, L. Frusciante, L. Monti, J.M. Bradeen, G. Cristinzio, A. Zoina, N. Greco, S. Vitale, and D. Carputo. 2007. Resistance traits and AFLP characterization of diploid primitive tuber-bearing potatoes. Genet Res Cr Evol 54(8):1797-1806. (Abstract)

 

Ballou, S.M., K.Y. Yun, C. Cheng, and B.G. de los Reyes. 2007. Cold sensitivity gradient in tuber-bearing Solanum based on physiological and transcript profiles. Crop Sci 47(5):2027-2035. (Abstract)

 

Bhaskar, P.B., J.A. Raasch, L.C. Kramer, P. Neumann, S.M. Wielgus, S. Austin-Phillips, and J.M. Jiang. 2008. Sgt1, but not Rar1, is essential for the RB-mediated broad-spectrum resistance to potato late blight. BMC Pl Bio 8(8). (Abstract)

 

Bidani, A., O. Nouri-Ellouz, L. Lakhoua, D. Sihachakr, C. Cheniclet, A. Mahjoub, N. Drira, and R. Gargouri-Bouzid. 2007. Interspecific potato somatic hybrids between Solanum berthaultii and Solanum tuberosum L. showed recombinant plastome and improved tolerance to salinity. Pl Cell, Tissue & Organ Culture 91(3):179-189. (Abstract)

 

Bradeen, J.M., M. Iorizzo, H. Mann, L. Gao, E.A. Quirin, R. Aversano, and D. Carputo. 2008. Comparative structural genomics of 1EBN potato: DArT markers for improved access to resistance genes. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Brown, C.R. 2008. Breeding for phytonutrient enhancement of potato. Am J Potato Res 85:298-307.

 

Brown, C.R., D. Culley, M. Bonierbale, and W. Amoros. 2007. Anthocyanin, Carotenoid content, and antioxidant values in native South American potato cultivars. HortSci 42(7):1733-1736. (Abstract)

 

Brown, C.R., M. Moore, M. Pavek, D. Hane, R. Novy, J.C. Miller Jr., S.L. Love, and S. James. 2008. Genetic variability in mineral content of potato tubers. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Burkhart, C.R., B.J. Christ, K.G. Haynes, and B.T. Vinyard. 2008. Little genetic and no additive genetic variance for resistance to common scab in a Solanum phureja-S. stenotomum population. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Poster)

 

Camadro, E.L., S.K. Saffarano, J.C. Espinillo, M. Castro, and P.W. Simon. 2008. Cytological mechanisms of 2n pollen formation in the wild potato Solanum okadae and pollen-pistil relations with the cultivated potato, Solanum tuberosum. Genet Res Crop Evol 55(3):471-477. (Abstract)

 

Campbell, B.A., J. Hallengren and D.J. Hannapel. 2008. Accumulation of BEL1-like transcripts in solanaceous species. Planta 228:897-906.

 

Cernak, I., J. Taller, I. Wolf, E. Feher, G. Babinszky, Z. Alfoldi, G. Csanadi, and Z. Polgar. 2008. Analysis of the applicability of molecular markers linked to the PVY extreme resistance gene Rysto, and the identification of new markers. Acta Bio Hungarica 59(2):195-203. (Abstract)

 

Chatterjee, M., A.K. Banerjee and D.J. Hannapel. 2007. A BELL1-like gene of potato is light activated and would inducible. Pl Physio 145(4):1435-1443. (Abstract)

 

Cheng, ShanHan, Xie CongHua, Lin ShiSen et al. 2006. Germplasm enhancement and breeding to resist low temperature sweetening in potato. China Vegetables pp 84-88. (Abstract)

 

Coleman, W.K. 2008. Evaluation of wild Solanum species for drought resistance: 1. Solanum gandarillasii Cardenas. Environ Exp Bot 62(3):221-230. (Abstract)

 

D’hoop, B.B. 2008. Association mapping in tetraploid potato using SSRs and AFLPS. In: 17th Triennial Conference of the EAPR, Abstracts of papers and posters, Brasov, Romania, July 6-10, 2008, p. 376. (Abstract)

 

D’hoop, B.B., M.J. Paulo, K. Kowitwanich, R.G.F. Visser, H.J. van Eck, and F.A. van Eeuwijk. 2008. Association mapping in tetraploid potato using SSRs and AFLPs. In: Molecular mapping and marker assisted selection in plants, Programme and abstracts, Vienna, Austria, February 03-06, 2008, p. 88. (Abstract)

 

Douches, D., J. Coombs, J. Estelle, D. Berry, K. Zarka, W. Kirk, and R. Schafer. 2008. Update on late blight resistance breeding in Michigan. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Drobyazina, P. and E. Khavkin. 2008. Two CONSTANS-LIKE1 genes in long- and short-day Solanum plants. XVI FESPB Congress, Tampere, Finland, 2008. Physiol Pl 133:10-20. (Abstract)

 

Drobyazina, P.E. and E.E. Khavkin. 2008. Two CONSTANS-LIKE genes in Solanum plants. Control of flowering time and application for plant breeding. Science meeting, Salzau, German, September 2008, p 35. (Abstract)

 

Fry, W. 2008. Phytophthora infestans: the plant (and R gene) destroyer. Mol Pl Path 9(3):385-402. (Abstract)

 

Ginzberg, I., J. Tokuhisa and R.E. Veilleux. 2008. Potato steroidal glycoalkaloids: Biosynthesis and genetic manipulation. Potato Res 52:0014-3065 (Print) 1871-4528 (Online).

 

Gokce, A., M.E. Whalon, H. Cam, Y. Yanar, I. Demirtas, and N. Goren. 2007. Contact and residual toxicities of 30 plant extracts to Colorado potato beetle larvae. Archives Phyto Pl Prot 40(6):441-450. (Abstract)

 

Gonzalez-Schain, N.D. and P. Suarez-Lopez. 2008. CONSTANS delays flowering and affects tuber yield in potato. Bio Plant 52(2):251-258. (Abstract)

 

Govers, F. and H.J.G. Meijer. 2007. Phytophthora genomics: new opportunities and challenges. Gewasbescherming 38(5):265-271. (Abstract)

 

Greco, N., A. Brandonisio, and P. de Cosmis. 2007. Pathotypes and heterogeneity of Italian populations of Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida. Nematol Mediterranea 35(2):137-142. (Abstract)

 

Halterman, D., Z. Liu, Y. Chen, and S. Stephenson. 2008. Molecular characterization of potato disease resistance genes. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Halterman, D.A., L.C. Kramer, S. Wielgus, and J.M. Jiang. 2008. Performance of transgenic potato containing the late blight resistance gene RB. Pl Disease 92(3):339-343. (Abstract)

 

Hannapel, D.J., M. Chatterjee, Y.Y. Yu, H. Chen, and A.K. Banerjee. 2008. A light-activated signal for tuberization. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Haynes, Kathleen G. 2008. Heritability of chip color and specific gravity in a long-day adapted Solanum phureja-S. stenotomum population. Am J Potato Res 85:361-366.

 

Haynes, K.G., B.J. Christ and B.T. Vinyard. 2008. Determining the importance of combining ability for late blight resistance in early generations of potato breeding when susceptible clones are discarded. Am J Potato Res 85:445-454.

 

Heldak, J., M. Bezo, V. Stefunova, and A. Gallikova. 2007. Selection of DNA markers for detection of extreme resistance to potato virus Y  in tetraploid potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) F1 progenies. Czech J Genet Pl Breed 43(4):125-134. (Abstract)

 

Hermanova, V., J. Barta and V. Curn. 2007. Wild potato species: Characterization and biological potential for potato breeding. Czech J Genet Pl Br 43(3):73-81. (Abstract)

 

Horgan, F.G., D.T. Quiring, A. Lagnaoui, and Y. Pelletier. 2007. Variable responses of tuber moth to the leaf trichomes of wild potatoes. Ent Exp Appl 125(1):1-12. (Abstract)

 

Horgan, F.G., D.T. Quiring, A. Lagnaoui, A.R. Salas, and Y. Pelletier. 2007. Periderm- and cortex-based resistance to tuber-feeding Phthorimaea operculella in two wild potato species. Ent Exp Appl 125(3):249-258. (Abstract)

 

Houser, A.J. and R. Davidson. 2008. Development of a greenhouse assay to evaluate potato germplasm for susceptibility to powdery scab. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Jacobs, M.M.J., R.G. van den Berg, V.G.A.A. Vleeshouwers, M. Visser, R. Mank, M. Sengers, R. Hoekstra, and B. Vosman. 2008. AFLP analysis reveals a lack of phylogenetic structure with Solanum section Petota. BMC Evol Bio 88(145). (Abstract)

 

Jansky, S.H., A.J. Hamernik and J. Bae. 2008. The use of Solanum verrucosum to access 2x, 1EBN germplasm. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Jolivet, K., E. Grenier, J.P. Bouchet, M. Esquibet, M.C. Kerlan, B. Caromel, D. Mugniery, and V. Lefebvre. 2007. Identification of plant genes regulated in resistant potato Solanum sparsipilum during the early stages of infection by Globodera pallida. Genome 50(4):422-427. (Abstract)

 

Kielbowicz-Matuk, Agnieszka, Pascal Rey and Tadeusz Rorat. 2008. The organ-dependent abundance of a Solanum lipid transfer protein is up-regulated upon osmotic constraints and associated with cold acclimation ability. J Exp Bot, 4/25/2008, pp 1-13.

 

Lang, ZhiHong, Zhou Peng, Yu JingJuan, Ao GuangMing, and Zhao Qian. 2008. Functional characterization of the pollen-specific SBgLR promoter from potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Planta 227(2):387-396. (Abstract)

 

Le Roux, V.,  E.Campan, F. Dubois, C. Vincent, and P Giordanengo. 2007.  Screening for resistance against Myzus persicae and Macrosiphum euphorbiae among wild Solanum. Ann. Appl. Biol. 151:83-88.

 

Le Roux, V.,  S. Dugravot, E.Campan, F. Dubois, C. Vincent, and P Giordanengo. 2008.  Wild Solanum Resistance to Aphids: Antixenosis or Antibiosis? J. of Econ. Entomol. 101 (2): 584-591

 

Liu, XiCai. 2006. Study and utilization of potato germplasm resources. China Vegetables pp 25-27. (Abstract)

 

Love, S.L. and J.J. Pavek. 2008. Positioning the potato as a primary food source of vitamin C. Am J Potato Res 85:277-285.

 

Luthra, S.K., J. Gopal, V. Kumar, B.P. Singh, and S.K. Pandey. 2008. Evaluation of potato germplasm for frost tolerance. Indian J Hort 65(3):344-346. (Abstract)

 

McCue, K.F., D.R. Rockhold, P.V. Allen, and W.R. Belknap. 2008. Useful promoters and terminators from Solanum bulbocastanum for use in potatoes and other crops. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Morante, M.C., I. Tolin Tordoya and N. Montealegre Villanueva. 2007. Resistance to Phytophthora infestans Mont de Bary of phureja potato (Solanum phureja Juzepczuk et Bukasov) and populations of wild species of potato, La Paz, Bolivia. Pl Genet Resources Newsletter 151:43-48. (Abstract)

 

Morris, W.L., H.A. Ross, L.J.M. Ducreux, J.E. Bradshaw, G.J. Bryan, and M.A. Taylor. 2007. Umami compounds are a determinant of the flavor of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). J Ag Food Chem 55(23):9627-9633. (Abstract)

 

Mosley, A.R., S. Yilma, D.C. Hane, S.R. James, K.A. Rykbost, C.C. Shock, S.L. Love, D.L. Corsini, J.J. Pavek, R.E. Thornton, B.A. Charlton, E.P. Eldredge, R.G. Novy, M.J. Pavek, N.R. Knowles, J.L. Whitworth, C.R. Brown, J.C. Stark, and M.I. Vales. 2008. Willamette: A chipping cultivar with high yield and specific gravity, low incidence of hollow heart and brown center, and suitability for fresh-market usage. Am J Potato Res 85:85-92.

 

Mugniery, D., O. Plantard, S. Fournet, E. Grenier, B. Caromel, M.C. Kerlan, D. Picard, and D. Ellisseche. 2007. Evaluation of effectiveness and durability of resistance to Globodera pallida from Solanum vernei, S. spegazzinii and S. sparsipilum. Nematol Mediterranea 35(2):143-153. (Abstract)

 

Navarre, Roy, Roshani Shakya, Aymeric Goyer, Joanne Holden, Lavanya Reddivari, and Creighton Miller. 2008. Potato phytonutrient analysis and engineering. Phytochemical Society of North America Annual Meeting, Pullman, WA, June 2008. (Abstract)

 

Nichol, N.L., K. Zarka, J. Coombs, and D.S. Douches. 2008. CBF1 transgenic potatoes studied under drought conditions. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Novy, R.G., K.B. Kelley and J.L. Whitworth. 2008. Introgression of virus resistances from Solanum etuberosum into cultivated potato and the identification of molecular markers linked to it potato leafroll virus (PLRV) resistance. The 17th Triennial Conf. of the European Assoc. for Potato Research, Brasov, Romania. 7/8/08. Abstracts of Papers and Posters, pp. 70-71. (Abstract)

 

Novy, R.G., J.L. Whitworth, J.C. Stark, S.L. Love, D.L. Corsini, J.J. Pavek, M.I. Vales, S.R. James, D.C. Hane, C.C. Shock, B.A. Charlton, C.R. Brown, N.R. Knowles, M.J. Pavek, T.L. Brandt, and N. Olsen. 2008.  Premier Russet: A dual-purpose, potato cultivar with significant resistance to low temperature sweetening during long-term storage. Am J Potato Res 85:198-209.

 

Pelletier, Y. and D. De Koeyer. 2008. The use of Solanum oplocense as a source of resistance to the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say.). Symposium “Insects of Solanaceous crop” at the International Congress of Entomology, July 6-12, 2008, Durban, South Africa.

 

Pelletier, Y. and D. De Koeyer. 2008. Solanum oplocense as a source of resistance to the Colorado potato beetle and improved processing quality. XXIIIrd Association Latino Americano de la Papa Annual, Mar del Plata, Argentina, Nov. 30th to Dec. 5th. (Poster)

 

Peloquin, S.J., L.S. Boiteux, P.W. Simon, and S.H. Jansky. 2008. A Chromosome-specific estimate of transmission of heterozygosity by 2n gametes in potato. J Heredity 99(@):177-181. (Abstract)

 

Pennycooke, J.C., H.M. Cheng, S.M. Roberts, Q.F. Yang, S.Y. Rhee, and E.J. Stockinger. 2008. The low temperature-responsive, Solanum CBF1 genes maintain high identity in their upstream regions in a genomic environment undergoing gene duplications, deletions, and rearrangements. Pl Mol Bio 67(5):483-497. (Abstract)

 

Pino, M.T., J.S. Skinner, Z. Jeknic, P.M. Hayes, A.H. Soeldner, M.F. Thomashow, and T.H.H. Chen. 2008. Ectopic AtCBF1 over-expression enhances freezing tolerance and induces cold acclimation-associated physiological modifications in potato. Pl Cell Environ 31(4):393-406. (Abstract)

 

Polkowska-Kowalczyk, L., B. Wielgat and U. Maciejewska. 2007. Changes in the antioxidant status in leaves of Solanum species in response to elicitor from Phytophthora infestans. J Pl Physio 164(10):1268-1277. (Abstract)

 

Pompon, J. and Y. Pelletier. 2008. Xylem consumption in Macrosiphum euphorbiae aphid biology. Royal Entomological Society Annual Meeting, Plymouth, UK.

 

Pompon, J., D. Quiring, P. Giordanengo, and Y. Pelletier. 2008. Search for new means to control aphid potato pests: resistance mechanism of Solanum chomatophilum to Macrosiphum euphorbiae and Myzus persicae. Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Canada, Oct. 19-23, Ottawa, Canada.

 

Reddivari, L., J. Vanamala, S. Chintharlapalli, S.H. Safe, and J.C. Miller Jr. 2007. Anthocyanin fraction from potato extracts is cytotoxic to prostate cancer cells through activation of caspase-dependent and caspase-independent pathways. Carcinogenesis 38(10):2227-2235. (Abstract)

 

Rockhold, David R., Sophie Chang, Nathan Taylor, Paul V. Allen, Kent F. McCue, and William R. Belknap. 2008. Structure of two Solanum bulbocastanum polyubiquitin genes and expression of their promoters in transgenic potatoes. Am J Potato Res 85:219-226.

 

Rosenthal, S. and S.H. Jansky. 2008. Effect of production site and storage on antioxidant levels in specialty potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tubers. J Sci Food Ag 88:2087-2092.

 

Roshani, S. and D.A. Navarre. 2008. LC-MS analysis of solanidane glycoalkaloid diversity among four wild potato species and three cultivars. J Ag Food Chem 56:6949-6958.

 

Santa Cruz, J.H., B.J. Christ and K.G. Haynes. 2008. Inheritance of resistance to early blight disease in a diploid hybrid Solanum phureja-S. stenotomum population after one cycle of recurrent selection. American Phytopathological Society Meeting, July 26-30, 2008, Minneapolis, MN. (Abstract)

 

Scotti, N., S. Cozzolino and T. Cardi. 2007. Mitochondrial DNA variation in cultivated and wild potato species (Solanum spp.). Genome 50(8):706-713. (Abstract)

 

Shakya, Roshani and Duroy A. Navarre. 2008. LC-MS analysis of glycoalkaloid diversity among seven potato genotypes. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Shaterian, J., D.R. Waterer, H. de Jong, and K.K. Tanino. 2008. Methodologies and traits for evaluating the salt tolerance in diploid potato clones. Am J Potato Res 85:93-100.

 

Simko, I., J.H. van den Berg, D. Vreugdenhil, and E.E. Ewing. 2008. Mapping loci for chlorosis associated with chlorophyll b deficiency in potato. Euphytica 162(1):99-107. (Abstract)

 

Sliwka, J., I. Wasilewicz-Flis, H. Jakuczun, and C. Gebhardt. 2008. Tagging quantitative trait loci for dormancy, tuber shape, regularity of tuber shape, eye depth and flesh color in diploid potato originated from six Solanum species. Pl Breed 127(1):49-55. (Abstract)

 

Song, Ye-Su and Andrea Schwarzfischer. 2008. Development of STS markers for selection of extreme resistance (Rysto) to PVY and maternal pedigree analysis of extremely resistant cultivars. Am J Potato Res 85:159-170.

 

Sorensen, K.K., H.G. Kirk, K. Olsson, R. Labouriau, and J. Christiansen. 2008. A major QTL and an SSR marker associated with glycoalkaloid content in potato tubers from Solanum tuberosum x S. sparsipilum located on chromosome I. Theor Appl Genet 117(1):1-9. (Abstract)

 

Suttle, Jeff. 2008. Symposium Introduction: Enhancing the nutritional value of potato tubers. Am J Potato Res 85:266.

 

Tabaldi, L.A., F.T. Nicoloso, G.Y. Castro, D. Cargnelutti, J.F. Goncalves, R. Rauber, E.C. Skrebsky, M.R.C. Schetinger, V.M. Morsch, and D.A. Bisognin. 2007. Physiological and oxidative stress responses of four potato clones to aluminum in nutrient solution. Brazilian J Pl Physio 19(3):211-222. (Abstract)

 

Thieme, R., E. Rakosy-Tican, T. Gavrilenko, O. Antonova, J. Schubert, M. Nachtigall, U. Heimbach, and T. Thieme. 2008. Novel somatic hybrids (Solanum tuberosum L. + Solanum tarnii) and their fertile BC1 progenies express extreme resistance to potato virus Y and late blight. Theor Appl Genet 116(5):691-700. (Abstract)

 

Thompson, A.L., B.L. Farnsworth, N.C. Gudmestad, G.A. Secor, D.A. Preston, J.R. Sowokinos, M. Glynn, and H. Hatterman-Valenti. 2008. Dakota Diamond: An exceptionally high yielding, cold chipping potato cultivar with long-term storage potential. Am J Potato Res 85:171-182.

 

Thompson, Asunta L., Stephen L. Love, Joseph R. Sowokinos, Michael K. Thornton, and Clinton C. Shock. 2008. Review of the sugar end disorder in potato (Solanum tuberosum, L.). Am J Potato Res 85:375-386.

 

Tome, L.G.O., L.C. Davide, C.A.B.P. Pinto, A.A. Alves, and C.C. Salgado. 2007. Pollen viability and meiotic analysis of Solanum commersonii commersonii Dun., Solanum commersonii malmeanum Bitt. and Solanum tuberosum L. Crop Breed Appl Biotech 7(4):387-393. (Abstract)

 

Trofimov, R.N., S.N. Petukhov, N.N., Morozova, and S.I. Liorek. 2007. Using diploid species and dihaploids to intensify potato breeding. Kartofel’ i Ovoshchi no. 6. (Abstract)

 

Vales, M.I., R.J. Ottoman, J.A. Ortega, O. Riera-Lizarazu, and S. Yima. 2008. Breeding for resistance to PVY in tetraploid potatoes using marker assisted selection. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Valkonen, J.P.T., K. Wiegmann, J.H. Hamalainen, W. Marczewski, and K.N. Watanabe. 2008. Evidence for utility of the same PCR-based markers for selection of extreme resistance to Potato virus Y controlled by Rysto of Solanum stoloniferum derived from different sources. Ann Appl Bio 152(1):121-130. (Abstract)

 

Valverde, R. 2007. Genetic mapping and detection of QTLs in Solanum species. Agro Costarricense 31(2):31-47. (Abstract)

 

Voronkova, E.V., V.M. Lisovskaja, and A.P. Yermishin. 2007. Diploid hybrids between allotetraploid wild potato species Solanum acaule Bitt., S. stoloniferum Schltdl. and dihaploids of S. tuberosum L. Russian J Genet 43(8):882-889. (Abstract)

 

Vossen, E. van der, R. Hutten, V. Vleeshouwers, E. Jacobsen, and R. Visser. 2007. Development of a sustainable Phytophthora resistance strategy in potato. Gewasbescherming 38(5):257-264. (Abstract)

 

Vysniauskiene, R., Z. Jancys and R. Spalinskas. 2006. Impact of low temperature on superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity of frost resistant hybrids of potatoes. Sodininkyste ir Darzininkyste 25(4):331-338. (Abstract)

 

Wang, MiQia, S. Allefs, R.G. van den Berg, V.G.A.A. Vleeshouwers, E.A.G. van der Vossen, and B. Vosman. 2008. Allele mining in Solanum: conserved homologues of Rpi-blb1 are identified in Solanum stoloniferum. Theor Appl Genet 116(7):933-943. (Abstract)

 

Watkinson, J.I., L. Hendricks, A.A. Sioson, L.S. Heath, H.J. Bohnert, and R. Grene. 2008. Tuber development phenotypes in adapted and acclimated, drought-stressed Solanum tuberosum ssp. andigena have distinct expression profiles of genes associated with carbon metabolism. Pl Physio Biochem 46(1):34-45. (Abstract)

 

Whitworth, J.L., R.G. Novy, D.G. Hall, J.M. Crosslin, and C.R. Brown. 2008. Characterization of broad spectrum Potato virus Y resistance in a Solanum tuberosum ssp. andigena-derived population and select breeding clones using molecular markers, grafting, and field inoculations. Am J Potato Res (In press)

 

Yencho, G. Craig, Per H. McCord, Kathleen G. Haynes, and S.B. Rikki Sterrett. 2008. Internal Heat Necrosis of Potato – A Review. Am J Potato Res 85:69-76.

 

Zarka, D., D. Douches and W. Kirk. 2008. Progress in mapping and cloning of a late blight R-gene from S. microdontum. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Zebarth, B.J., T.R. Tarn, H. de Jong, and A. Murphy. 2008. Nitrogen use efficiency characteristics of andigena and diploid potato selections. Am J Potato Res 85:210-218.

 

Zhang, Y., C.S. Jung and W.S. de Jong. 2008. Loci that influence anthocyanins pigmentation of potato tuber flesh. 92nd Annual Meeting of The PAA, Buffalo, NY, August 10-14, 2008. (Abstract)

 

Theses Reporting Research with NRSP-6 Stocks

 

Butterbach, P. 2007. Molecular evolution of the disease resistance gene Rx in Solanum. Thesis, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands. 141 pp.

 

Cruz, Aida Juarez. 2008. Defense reactions of wild Solanum ssp. against the attack of Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary, in Toluca Valley, Mexico State. MS Thesis, Universidad Autonoma Chapingo, Mexico.

 

Marcial, Noris Dalia Calderon. 2008. Some defensive reactions in different Solanum ssp. for races of Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary. MS Thesis, Universidad Autonoma Chapingo, Mexico.

 

Santa Cruz Hidalgo, Jose H. 2008. Inheritance and marker-assisted selection for resistance to early blight disease in a diploid hybrid Solanum phureja-S. stenotomum population after one cycle of recurrent selection. MS Thesis, Dept. Plant Pathology, Penn State University.

 

 


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            D. S. Douches, Chairman, Technical Committee                   Date

 

 

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            C. Y. Hu  , Lead Administrative Advisor                              Date   

 

 

 

 

 

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