“…Since then, the number of genetic and genomics studies has increased, and a number of bioinformatics tools/pipelines for sweetpotato have been developed. These include Ranbow, GBSapp, ngsAssocPoly, MAPpoly, QTLpoly, OutcrossSeq, and haplotype-based phylogenetic analysis (HPA) ( Wadl et al., 2018 ; Moeinzadeh et al., 2020 ; Mollinari et al., 2020 ; da Silva Pereira et al., 2020 ; Yamamoto et al., 2020 ; Chen et al., 2021 ; Yamakawa et al., 2021 ; Yan et al., 2021 ). Over the past few decades, traditional breeding and molecular breeding approaches have been widely applied to sweetpotato and have resulted in the development of many new cultivars with improved yield, nutrient content, pest resistance, and other quality factors ( Newell et al., 1995 ; Okada et al., 2001 ; Otani et al., 2003 ; Gao et al., 2011b ; Wang et al., 2019 ).…”