Saturday 16 July 2011

potato genome has been sequenced

The potato which is related to aubergine, pepper,petunia and tomato has had its genome sequenced.
It has an estimated  844 megabase genome, over 24,000 genes, including over 3,000 snps, 28  kunitz protease inhibitor genes,which respond to pest and pathogen attacks.

The following genes give resistance to potato blight;
rb
rpi-blb2
rpi-vnt1
r1
r2
r3a

The potato was originally grown in peru area,but has since spread throughout the world.
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