Detection of somaclonal variations in potato using rapd markers [electronic resource].

Includes references.

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is an economically important vegetable crop in Egypt. It is the fourth most important crop by volume of production; it is high yielding, having a high nutritive value and gives high returns to farmers. Moreover, potato is considered a good source of antioxidants (Chen et al., 2007). It is vegetatively propagated, heterozy-gous and tetraploid, thus, traditional breeding of potato is very difficult (Solmon-Blackburn and Baker, 2001). Biotechnology could be contributed to solve this problem and realize great bene-fit to potato farmers.

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