Chips off the old block: most potatoes suffer depression

Chips off the old block: most potatoes suffer depression

A large proportion of the world’s potato crops are suffering from severe depression, according to researchers.

That’s not the type of depression that requires Zoloft or makes potatoes want to hide from the world, but “inbreeding depression” – the weakening of an organism’s genetic makeup from excessive breeding with close relatives.

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Published by Cosmos Magazine.

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