Author: Masaru IwanagaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Potatoes
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Diplogynoid Formation in Diploid Potatoes
Author: Masaru IwanagaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Potatoes
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The Production of New Potato Varieties
Author: G. J. JellisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521324580
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The book is based on the proceedings of a joint meeting of EAPR and EUCARPIA at King's College, Cambridge, December 1985.
Innovative Methods for Propagating Potatoes
Author: Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN:
Category : Potatoes
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Iowa State Journal of Research
Author: Iowa. State College, Cedar FallsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Potato Breeding: Theory and Practice
Author: John E. BradshawPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030644146
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the world’s fourth most important food crop after maize, rice and wheat with 377 million tonnes fresh-weight of tubers produced in 2016 from 19.2 million hectares of land, in 163 countries, giving a global average yield of 19.6 t ha-1 (http://faostat.fao.org). About 62% of production (234 million tonnes) was in Asia (191), Africa (25) and Latin America (18) as a result of steady increases in recent years, particularly in China and India. As a major food crop, the potato has an important role to play in the United Nations “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” which started on 1 January 2016 (http://faostat.fao.org). By 2030 the aim is to “ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round”. By then, the world population is expected to reach 8.5 billion and continue to increase to 9.7 billion in 2050. For potatoes, the need is to increase production and improve nutritional value during a period of climate change, a key aspect of which will be the breeding of new cultivars for a wide range of target environments and consumers. The aim of the book is to help this endeavour by providing detailed information in three parts on both the theory and practice of potato breeding. Part I deals with the history of potato improvement and with potato genetics. Part II deals with breeding objectives, divided into improving yield, quality traits and resistance to the most important diseases and pests of potatoes. Part III deals with breeding methods: first, the use of landraces and wild relatives of potato in introgression breeding, base broadening and population improvement; second, breeding clonally propagated cultivars as a way to deliver potato improvement to farmers’ fields; third, as an alternative, breeding potato cultivars for propagation through true potato seed; and fourth, gene editing and genetic transformation as ways of making further improvements to already successful and widely grown cultivars. Included are marker-assisted introgression and selection of specific alleles, genomic selection of many unspecified alleles and diploid F1 hybrid breeding.
2n Egg Freguencies and Their Mode of Formation in the Haploid Turberosum - S. Chacoense Hybrids
Author: Mary Kay KnudsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Potatoes
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Advances in Haploid Production in Higher Plants
Author: Alisher TouraevPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 140208854X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The importance of haploids is well known to geneticists and plant breeders. The discovery of anther-derived haploid Datura plants in 1964 initiated great excitement in the plant breeding and genetics communities as it offered shortcuts in producing highly desirable homozygous plants. Unfortunately, the expected revolution was slow to materialise due to problems in extending methods to other species, including genotypic dependence, recalcitrance, slow development of tissue culture technologies and a lack of knowledge of the underlying processes. Recent years have witnessed great strides in the research and application of haploids in higher plants. After a lull in activities, drivers for the resurgence have been: (1) development of effective tissue culture protocols, (2) identification of genes c- trolling embryogenesis, and (3) large scale and wide spread commercial up-take in plant breeding and plant biotechnology arenas. The first major international symposium on “Haploids in Higher Plants” took place in Guelph, Canada in 1974. At that time there was much excitement about the potential benefits, but in his opening address Sir Ralph Riley offered the following words of caution: “I believe that it is quite likely that haploid research will contr- ute cultivars to agriculture in several crops in the future. However, the more extreme claims of the enthusiasts for haploid breeding must be treated with proper caution. Plant breeding is subject from time to time to sweeping claims from ent- siastic proponents of new procedures.
Sexual Polyploidization and Protein Diversity in Potatoes
Author: Il-Gin MokIowa State Journal of Research
Author: Production of Potatoes from True Seed
Author: Publisher: International Potato Center
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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