Dataset for: Morphological baseline characterization of potato landrace diversity from the monitoring hotspot in Apurimac

This versatility of the populations of native potatoes is an essential characteristic to face the climatic and environmental uncertainties, which characterize the high ecosystem of the Andes and to use the limited resources of the soil effectively through the sectorial system of land rest between 3,600 masl and 4,200 masl. There is a worldwide concern about the conservation of agrobiodiversity and its availability for future generations in the face of globalization and social-environmental changes.

The documentation and establishment of a baseline of potato diversity in the Andean zone from the genetic / molecular level to the level of traditional / collective knowledge and spatial management of genetic resources in the communities is essential to reveal scientific evidence on the state of conservation of the total and relative diversity of the cultivated potato and the factors that determine its enrichment and / or loss.

This dataset encompasses information of total potato diversity based on 30 critical morphological descriptors, collected on-farm in four communities of the Peruvian Apurimac diversity hotspot. Aspects of subterranaean and above-ground plant parts have been considered. Further, the ploidies of the landraces were determined by performing flow citometry