Overview of Sweetpotato Genomics for Accelerated Breeding

Sweetpotato is a widely recognized food security and cash crop with highly recognized potential to alleviate hunger, vitamin A deficiency, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is also a crop predominantly grown in small plot holdings by poor women farmers across SSA. The Genomic Tools for Sweetpotato (GT4SP) Improvement Project is working to develop modern genomic, genetic, and bioinformatics tools to facilitate sweetpotato improvement. Our goal is to developing a set of “next generation” breeder tools for African sweetpotato breeders. In this 5 min. talk I will provide an overview of GT4SP project and introduce the sweetpotato speakers in the workshop.