Breeding vegetatively propagated crops
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TextPublication details: Mexico, DF (Mexico) CIMMYT : 2003Description: p. 22-23Subject(s): DDC classification: - 631.53 BOO
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The most important vegetatively propagated food crops are potato, cassava, sweet potato, yam, plantain/banana, sugar cane and fruit trees. Other crops with asexual propagations are some ornamentals, grasses and forages. Cross breeding methods for vegetatively propagated crops rely on sexual hybridization, i.e., seeds are needed for producing new genotypes after crossing selected parents. The main goal of breeding clones will be to obtain genotypes that are phenotypically uniform (homogeneous) but often highly heterozygous, particularly if non-additive gene action controls the commercial trait(s) of interest. Non-additive gene action may arise from intra- or inter-allelic (epistasis) interactions.
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0309|AGRIS 0301|AL-Maize Program
Juan Carlos Mendieta
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