Whole genome Shotgun of Solanum americanum

Late blight, a major disease of potato and tomato caused by Phytophthora infestans still poses a great threat to potato and tomato production. The deployment of resistance (R) genes in breeding programs has a potential to be a more sustainable and durable way of protecting plants from late blight than chemical control. We recently demonstrated that Solanum americanum is a valuable resource for a new source of disease resistance genes against P. infestans. These datasets are WGS of several lines displaying strong resistance to multiple P. infestans isolates, except susceptible accession 2271.