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Leena Pietilä
Publications - 2
Citations - 135
Leena Pietilä is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Protoplast & Solanum tuberosum. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 129 citations.
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Potato Glycoalkaloids: A Burden or a Blessing?
TL;DR: Low production of SGAs is a dominant character inherited in a relatively simple manner and can be selected for in potato-breeding programs, whereas the use of wild potato germplasm tends to increase the SGA accumulation in the breeding lines.
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Production and characterization of "second generation" somatic hybrids derived from protoplast fusion between interspecific somatohaploid and dihaploid Solanum tuberosum L.
Veli-Matti Rokka,Jari P. T. Valkonen,Jari P. T. Valkonen,Airi Tauriainen,Leena Pietilä,Renata Lebecka,Ewa Zimnoch-Guzowska,Eija Pehu +7 more
TL;DR: Most of the “second generation” somatic hybrids were vigorous, but variable in morphology and they were extremely resistant to PLRV and they had tolerance to PVY infection derived from the somatohaploid fusion partner.