The potato clock project

Overview:

The Potato Clock Project is funded by an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF-award #1950376: “Cycling below ground: Circadian regulation in wild and domesticated potato“). This is a four year project (May 2020- April 2024) of researchers led by Eva M. Farre (MSU) and with Robin Buell (UGA), Krishnan Arjun (U. of Colorado), Addie Thompson (MSU), David Douches (MSU) and David Stroupe (U. of Utah) as collaborators.

Project Updates and News:

We completed the sequence, assembly  and annotation of the two wild potato genomes in this project: Solanum candolleanum (PI 210044) and Solanum chacoense (M6). The raw sequences were previously deposited in NCBI Sequence Read Archive and we have released the genome and its annotation via SpudDB (http://spuddb.uga.edu/). SpudDB has a download page for the genome sequences and their annotation as well a JBrowse2 install that include the expression data (full-length cDNA alignments and mRNAseq).

Listen to Eva Farre, Miles Roberts and Kevin Folta discuss about circadian clocks – July 2020

MSU faculty explores factors that make both potatoes and science teachers tick – May 2020