Articles
Haploid induction technologies – potential for translation
Article number
1283_19
Pages
143 – 146
Language
English
Abstract
The creation of true-breeding lines via traditional breeding requires self- or sib-pollination over several generations.
Thus, in species with long generation times (biennials, many tree crops) the time to homozygosity – perhaps as long as several decades – significantly delays the production of new varieties that are propagated through seed.
Production of new true-breeding varieties through haploid induction (and subsequent doubling) eliminates this barrier, producing plants that are homozygous at all loci from a highly heterozygous parent in a single generation.
Thus, in species with long generation times (biennials, many tree crops) the time to homozygosity – perhaps as long as several decades – significantly delays the production of new varieties that are propagated through seed.
Production of new true-breeding varieties through haploid induction (and subsequent doubling) eliminates this barrier, producing plants that are homozygous at all loci from a highly heterozygous parent in a single generation.
Authors
A. Britt, S. Kuppu, M. Ron
Keywords
cenh3, haploids
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