Towards F1 Hybrid Seed Potato Breeding

Hybrid breeding in wheat: technologies to improve hybrid wheat seed production.

Global food security demands the development and delivery of new technologies to increase and secure cereal production on finite arable land without increasing water and fertilizer use. There are several options for boosting wheat yields, but most offer only small yield increases. Wheat is an inbred plant, and hybrids hold the potential to deliver a major lift in yield and will open a wide rang...

Applied potato genetics and breeding: the way ahead for potato breeding

strategies based on genotypic selection. It is concerned with producing improved cultivars for clonal propagation by tubers, and not with ones for propagation by True Potato Seed (TPS). This is because SCRI breeders are sceptical about the place of TPS in the highly developed markets of Europe and North America, whilst acknowledging that there is much interest throughout the tropics in TPS as a...

Seed potato production system in Japan, starting from foundation seed of potato

Potato is one of the staple crops cultivated in upland farming in Japan and is propagated vegetatively by means of tubers. However once infected with diseases, potato yield decreases significantly. And one seed potato can produce approximately only 10 potato tubers. To improve the production system of seed potatoes in Japan, Japanese government established a three-stage propagation system for t...

Use of light in seed potato storage

Early Generation Seed Potato Production & Certification

Potato is one of a number of vegetatively propagated crops. Potato tubers that either are planted whole or have been mechanically cut are the propagating material. The process of vegetative propagation can cause unique problems in maintaining varietal purity and in the management of "seed-borne" diseases. Disease pathogens present in the propagative material will, with all probability, be trans...