Articles
Recent studies on strawberry breeding in Türkiye
Article number
1444_2
Pages
9 – 12
Language
English
Abstract
Scientific research highlights the benefits of berries for human health, and increases the demand of consumption and production all over the world including Turkey.
For this reason, berry breeders have started to work on the development of new cultivars that are especially important for human health and nutrition.
For this purpose, within the scope of the European Union project called Breeding Value, which includes 8 different countries and 20 participants under the coordination of Professor Bruno Mezzetti, Turkey was involved in this project and the nutritional contents of local berries were examined, as well as their resistance to some biotic and abiotic stress factors.
On the other hand, our country has participated in breeding studies to develop cultivars resistant to gray mold disease, which causes significant commercial losses in strawberries, and to determine QTLs related to the disease, within the scope of the MedBerry project, which is also supported by the European Union, under the coordination of Elena Baraldi, in which it is a part of 5 different European projects.
In addition, development of new strawberry cultivars tolerant to water stress by crossbreeding method and identification of candidate genes related to water stress, supported by national foundation TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye) is continuing.
Finally, in our project on the development of new cultivars resistant to powdery mildew and gray mold in strawberries with different breeding strategies, were supported by the national TUBITAK with our international stakeholders Mezzetti and Baraldi, we will study classical hybridization and protoplast fusion techniques with the cultivars determined within the scope of our MedBerry project has already finalized.
In this article, the breeding studies we have done on strawberries in recent years are presented
For this reason, berry breeders have started to work on the development of new cultivars that are especially important for human health and nutrition.
For this purpose, within the scope of the European Union project called Breeding Value, which includes 8 different countries and 20 participants under the coordination of Professor Bruno Mezzetti, Turkey was involved in this project and the nutritional contents of local berries were examined, as well as their resistance to some biotic and abiotic stress factors.
On the other hand, our country has participated in breeding studies to develop cultivars resistant to gray mold disease, which causes significant commercial losses in strawberries, and to determine QTLs related to the disease, within the scope of the MedBerry project, which is also supported by the European Union, under the coordination of Elena Baraldi, in which it is a part of 5 different European projects.
In addition, development of new strawberry cultivars tolerant to water stress by crossbreeding method and identification of candidate genes related to water stress, supported by national foundation TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye) is continuing.
Finally, in our project on the development of new cultivars resistant to powdery mildew and gray mold in strawberries with different breeding strategies, were supported by the national TUBITAK with our international stakeholders Mezzetti and Baraldi, we will study classical hybridization and protoplast fusion techniques with the cultivars determined within the scope of our MedBerry project has already finalized.
In this article, the breeding studies we have done on strawberries in recent years are presented
Authors
N.E. Kafkas
Keywords
strawberry, breeding, botrytis, drought stress
Groups involved
- Division Vine and Berry Fruits
- Division Plant-Environment Interactions in Field Systems
- Division Horticulture for Human Health
- Working Group Vaccinium Species and Management
- Working Group Rubus and Ribes Species and Management
- Working Group Kiwifruit Culture and Management
- Working Group Strawberry Culture and Management
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