date:Oct 25, 2019
There is a growing niche market for coloured-skin potatoes with breeders looking to develop new cultivars with coloured skin, as well as improved agronomic and nutritional traits.
While skin colour can be determined visually, its not possible to visually determine whether white-skinned varieties have the potential to bear coloured progeny or to estimate the dosage of gene variants associated with tuber skin colour.
Using genetic molecular markers provides a time- and money-saving tool that can