CRISPR/Cas9 Technology for Potato Functional Genomics and Breeding.

Cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the most important staple food crops worldwide. Its tetraploid and highly heterozygous nature poses a great challenge to its basic research and trait improvement through traditional mutagenesis and/or crossbreeding.

Genome-Wide Analyses of Aspartic Proteases on Potato Genome (): Generating New Tools to Improve the Resistance of Plants to Abiotic Stress.

Aspartic proteases are proteolytic enzymes widely distributed in living organisms and viruses. Although they have been extensively studied in many plant species, they are poorly described in potatoes. The present study aimed to identify and characterize aspartic proteases.

State of the Art of Genetic Engineering in Potato: From the First Report to Its Future Potential.

Potato ( L.) is a crop of world importance that produces tubers of high nutritional quality. It is considered one of the promising crops to overcome the challenges of poverty and hunger worldwide.

Reduced Enzymatic Browning in Potato Tubers by Specific Editing of a Polyphenol Oxidase Gene Ribonucleoprotein Complexes Delivery of the CRISPR/Cas9 System.

Polyphenol Oxidases (PPOs) catalyze the conversion of phenolic substrates to quinones, leading to the formation of dark-colored precipitates in fruits and vegetables. This process, known as enzymatic browning, is the cause of undesirable changes in organoleptic properties and the loss of nutritional quality in plant-derived products. In potato ( L.