During the last century, plant breeding of crops and ornamentals has become an important business. Mendel's principles of inheritance of traits laid the foundation of today's modern genetics. Although intra- and interspecific cross breeding, chromosome doubling and mutation breeding still form the...

Vegetables are target crops

This book attempts to present a readable format on plant breeding principles and their application, based on the collective experience of the three authors but with a heavy dependence on the scientific literature. This is also a long-awaited replacement for older texts in senior undergraduate plant ...

As an emerging innovation, hybrid potato breeding raises high expectations about faster variety development and clean true potato seed as a new source of planting material. Hybrid breeding could, therefore, substantially contribute to global food security and other major sustainable development...

The expansion of bean genome technologies has prompted new perspectives on generating resources and knowledge essential to research and implementing biotechnological tools for the practical operations of plant breeding programs. This study aimed to resequence the entire genome (whole genome...

Newly published draft genome sequence provides a valuable resource for facilitating spinach research and improvement.

Wild tomatoes offer hope for breeding tastier tomatoes

Fruit development, ripening and postharvest

The importance of plant breeding in Brazilian agriculture has grown a lot in the last 50 years. This occurred mainly because of the: increase in graduate programs, which qualified hundreds of professionals; creation of EMBRAPA and other research institutes or state companies, with an emphasis on...

Novelty is the primary requirement and breeding target for plant breeding, which can make a significant contribution to the new cultivar. The key factor for successful breeding is the genetic variation in the progeny, which depends on the degree of genetic material mixing after meiosis. However,...