1. Domestication to 21st century cultivars (i.e. historical introduction but including some modern analysis)
2. Need for new cultivars (FAO objectives, yield gap, nutritional value, ideotypes, climate change, end uses and target environments)
3. Utilization of germplasm: wild relatives, land races and modern cultivars (recent molecular studies and genetic structure of landraces, revised taxonomy of wild relatives)
4. Utilization of genes and their alleles (major genes, QTLs of large effect and polygenes)
5. Introgression breeding (diploid, tetraploid and marker-assisted)
6. Population improvement (diploid and tetraploid, base broadening, combining major genes and QTLs and combining polygenes through genomic selection)
7. Breeding clonally propagated cultivars (diploid and tetraploid, multistage and multi-trait selection)
8. Seed-tuber production (including problems faced by poor farmers in 'developing countries')
9. Breeding TPS propagated cultivars (diploid and tetraploid)
10. Breeding diploid F1 hybrids for TPS propagation
11. Genetically modified potatoes
12. Breeding for disease and pest resistance (theory, practice and problems)
