Potato breeding : theory and practice

Potato breeding : theory and practice / John E. Bradshaw.

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)....

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Main Author: Bradshaw, John E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2021]
Subjects:
Potatoes > Breeding.
Potatoes > Breeding
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 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)
  • Index.

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