Articles
Strawberry breeding strategies in Turkey
Article number
1449_6
Pages
45 – 48
Language
English
Abstract
Strawberries are one of the most popular berry crops that have a very large market benefits and highly profitable fruits, and therefore their popularity in Turkey is increasing year by year.
Thanks to different ecological conditions, various growing technologies such as open-field and protected cultivation as well as soilless systems and appropriate cultivars, Turkish consumers can find fresh strawberries all year round.
Strawberry cultivation is done using foreign strawberry varieties.
In addition, we have some local strawberry cultivars such as ‘Osmanlı’, ‘Tüylü’, ‘Kara’, ‘Ereğli’, ‘Dağ çileği’, but they are grown in a very limited area.
These cultivars have been used as parents in the previous cross-breeding programs.
Until now several breeding programs have been carried out by the research institutes, universities and private companies in Turkey.
We involved international EU PRIMA project as a Turkish partner to characterize our strawberry germplasm resources including our local varieties for their susceptibility to gray mold disease and to identify QTLs related to disease.
We have also involved another international EU HORIZON 2020 project to identify our berry genetic resources based on their breeding values specifically for drought stress for further breeding programmes.
In this manuscript latest advances in strawberry breeding strategies and new approaches were summarized.
Thanks to different ecological conditions, various growing technologies such as open-field and protected cultivation as well as soilless systems and appropriate cultivars, Turkish consumers can find fresh strawberries all year round.
Strawberry cultivation is done using foreign strawberry varieties.
In addition, we have some local strawberry cultivars such as ‘Osmanlı’, ‘Tüylü’, ‘Kara’, ‘Ereğli’, ‘Dağ çileği’, but they are grown in a very limited area.
These cultivars have been used as parents in the previous cross-breeding programs.
Until now several breeding programs have been carried out by the research institutes, universities and private companies in Turkey.
We involved international EU PRIMA project as a Turkish partner to characterize our strawberry germplasm resources including our local varieties for their susceptibility to gray mold disease and to identify QTLs related to disease.
We have also involved another international EU HORIZON 2020 project to identify our berry genetic resources based on their breeding values specifically for drought stress for further breeding programmes.
In this manuscript latest advances in strawberry breeding strategies and new approaches were summarized.
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Authors
N.E. Kafkas, S. Kafkas
Keywords
strawberry, aroma, gray mold, drought stress
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