Forming an International Consortium for Sweetpotato Genome Sequencing

摘要

In July of this year, potato genome sequencing and analysis was published in Nature. The genome of Fragaria vesca was published in February, and that of Brassica rapa was published in August. vSweetpotato is the 7th most important crop in the world; however, basically it has been poor people's food. Little investment has been made in its research and development. Only a few countries (e.g., Korea, Japan, China, the U.S., and India) have invested in sweetpotato research.