Is it possible to grow potatoes in the same place from year to year: debunk myths and reveal secrets

Rules for the successful cultivation of potatoes in the same place.

The potato is the basic food for more than 1.3 billion people, yet there are only a relatively small number of different varieties and the breeding of new varieties is difficult. The reason for this is the complex genome of the potato, which contains four instead of two genome copies in each cell. Now researchers have for the first time the genetic material of ten historical potato varieties from [...] The article What the genome of European pot…