Vegetable Breeding Strategies

Guiding strategies for breeding vegetable cultivars

Vegetables are considered essential for wellbalanced diets. The production and marketing of vegetables crops are undergoing continuous change globally. This is mainly due to the growing demands of consumers for safe and healthy vegetables, increased urbanisation of societies, and the growth in scale and influence of supermarkets chains. Horticultural science can respond to many of these challen...

Breeding Competitive Strategies

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Breeding Strategies of Tropical Birds

Transgenic Vegetable Breeding for Nutritional Quality and Health Benefits

Vegetables are essential for well-balanced diets. About 3 billion people in the world are malnourished due to imbalanced diets. Vegetables can contribute to the prevention of malnutrition disorders. Genetic engineering enables vegetable breeders to incorporate desired transgenes into elite cultivars, thereby improving their value considerably. It further offers unique opportunities for improvin...

Classical Breeding To Improve Vegetable Vitamin And Provitamin Content