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...

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...

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...