INTRODUCTION: Earliness of tuberisation and the quality of potato tubers are important traits in potato breeding. The qualitative traits rely on the metabolite profile of tubers, which are storage organs and net importers of assimilates. Thus, the quality of tubers largely depend...

Late blight is one of the main biological stresses limiting the potato yield; however, the biochemical mechanisms underlying the infection process of Phytophthora infestans remain unrevealed. In this study, the late blight-resistant potato cultivar Ziyun No.1 (R) and the susceptible cult...

Modern potato varieties often exhibit low carotenoid content, limiting their nutritional value and processing performance. This study employed a multi-omics approach (physicochemical analysis, metabolomics, mineral profiling, transcriptomics, and microbiome sequencing) to investigate the molecula...

Cadmium (Cd) in agricultural soils inhibits potato growth, disrupts tuber development, and causes Cd accumulation in edible tubers, threatening food safety. Here, we determined the EC50 of Cd in potato, which induced oxidative stress and chloroplast damage. Transcriptomic and metabolomic co-analy...

Suberin is a hydrophobic biopolymer that acts as an internal and external diffusion and transpiration barrier in plants. It is involved in two phases of wound healing, i.e. initial closing layer formation and subsequent wound periderm development. Transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses of wounde...

INTRODUCTION: Grafting is a traditional research and plant production technique used to study the long-distance movement of molecules and reduce disease susceptibility, respectively. Tomato/potato grafts are rare examples of successful interspecies grafting, even resulting in com...