Potatoes with plants and blossoms in the background (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research

Potatoes with plants and blossoms in the background

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Before the potato was recognized as edible, it was grown in Europe as an ornamental plant. The pollen in the large flowers is normally collected by bumblebees for pollination. In the present study, genomes from individual pollen grains were analysed to produce the first complete map of a potato genome.

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Ulrich Pollmann, 2022

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