Chilean scientists worked five years for deciphering the genome of the potato:

This successful sequencing may help potatoes to be more resistant to the soil where they are planted. PHOTO: EFE

A key role had three Chilean scientists decoding the genome sequencing of potato. Boris Sagredo and Nilo Mejia, of the Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA) who along with Alex di Génova research engineer of Math^omics, joined in 2006 the consortium of international researchers to sequencing the potato genome to enhance the quality of a seed so important to humans.

Boris Sagredo, INIA's scientists told Emol that from the year 2009 it was discovered a new genotype of the potato. This, helped by new sequencing technologies were according to him, the main factors that today we may be talking about the significant progress he was part and which will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Nature. Despite the importance of this scientific feat, that could help solve the problems of famine in developing countries, experts warn that the analysis of the genetic sequence of the plant may take several more years.

The original text of Emol here (In Spanish)