ROOT VEGETABLES, BREEDING TRENDS, RESULTS

Molecular breeding of healthy vegetables

In September 2010, a group of carrot growers in the USA announced a US$25 million marketing campaign to promote ‘cut and peel’ carrots—also known as ‘baby carrots’—with the slogan: “Eat ‘em like junk food”. The campaign is an attempt to break into the US$18 billion snack-food industry by “[t]aking a page out of junk food’s playbook and applying it to baby carrots” (Horovitz, 2010). It is neithe...

Vegetables: Root Crops

Breeding Vegetables with Increased Content in Bioactive Phenolic Acids.

Vegetables represent a major source of phenolic acids, powerful antioxidants characterized by an organic carboxylic acid function and which present multiple properties beneficial for human health. In consequence, developing new varieties with enhanced content in phenolic acids is an increasingly important breeding objective. Major phenolic acids present in vegetables are derivatives of cinnamic...

Cereal breeding and its future trends.

This paper seeks to show that cereal breeders have been successful when their objectives have been clear. It is suggested that the end of cereal improvement is not in sight and that breeders will continue to make significant advances in many directions. In order to look at future trends it is necessary to examine what has been achieved and to consider the principles on which cereal breeding is ...

Trends in Mushroom cultivation and breeding

Mushrooms are highly nutritious and environment friendly crops that carry numerous medicinal benefits. The cultivation of edible mushrooms carries great relevance in todays’ world in the context of a burgeoning population growth and extreme pressure on the environment. But advances in research on mushroom breeding and production is very limited as compared to other crops. This maybe partly due ...