You Say Potato, I Say 'Highly Heterozygous Autotetraploid'

Jul 11, 2011

An international consortium of researchers has reported results from a study of the potato genome, reports New Scientist's Debora MacKenzie. Most potatoes hold four copies of its genome, each of which is different from the others, "making sequencing a nightmare," MacKenzie says.

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