{"id":5108,"date":"2011-07-11T13:07:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T17:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T17:07:27","slug":"international-team-completes-draft-sequence-of-potato-genome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=5108","title":{"rendered":"International Team Completes Draft Sequence of Potato Genome"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1066\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Potatoes_ARS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1066\" title=\"Potatoes_ARS\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Potatoes_ARS.jpg\" alt=\"Potatoes (Agricultural Research Service, USDA)\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Potatoes_ARS.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Potatoes_ARS-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Agricultural Research Service, USDA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.potatogenome.net\/index.php\/Main_Page\">Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium<\/a> (PGSC), a global group of universities and research institutes, has published a draft sequence of the potato genome. Their work appears in the current issue of the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature10158.html\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PGSC began in 2006 at Wageningen University &amp; Research Centre in the Netherlands, and has grown to include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teagasc.ie\/news\/2011\/201107-11a.asp\">29 research groups<\/a> in 14 countries. In late 2009, PGSC released a preliminary draft sequence of the potato genome. Since that time the PGSC refined the genome assembly, as well as further analysis and interpretation of the data.<\/p>\n<p>The genome assembly covers about 95% of the genes in potato, and was made possible by advances in DNA sequencing technology over the past few years. The Beijing Genomics Institute also developed new software for this project.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis of the genome sequence data revealed that the potato contains some 39,000 protein coding genes. The location on one of potato&#8217;s 12 chromosomes is now identified for more than 90% of the genes. The potato genome assembly and other resources are now available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.potatogenome.net\/index.php\/Main_Page\">the public domain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PGSC says the potato is an important global food source, and after wheat and rice, considered the third most important food crop, with a world-wide production of 309 million tons in 2007. By 2020, the potato is expected to support more than two billion people worldwide\u00a0 for food, feed, or income.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=1064\">Dow, Wageningen to Collaborate on Potato Genome<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium (PGSC), a global group of universities and research institutes, has published a draft sequence of the potato genome. Their work appears in the current issue of the journal Nature. PGSC began in 2006 at Wageningen University &amp; Research Centre in the Netherlands, and has grown to include 29 research groups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[92,107,45,55,64,26],"class_list":["post-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ventures","category-products","tag-agriculture","tag-asia","tag-europe","tag-genomics","tag-life-sciences","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5112,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions\/5112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}