BREEDING OF VEGETABLES FOR PROCESSING

Breeding vegetables for processing has been influenced in the past by technological developments in breeding and genetics, advances in knowledge and application of genetics of disease and insect resistance, development of F₁ hybrids, increases in mechanization, and by many other factors.
While discoveries in those fields have led to the development of unique and superior processing vegetable cultivars, there are many problems remaining to be solved.
Disease and insect resistance continues to be a critical need especially as we begin to consider the limits to germplasm resources and to chemical controls.
Cultivars suitable for mechanization must continue to be developed for many crops and reassessed for others as growing areas expand and crop culture changes.
At the same time our available germplasm should be collected, preserved and evaluated for new characters and new sources of disease and insect resistance.
To do this, funds for training and for continuing existing plant breeding programs must be preserved or upgraded.
Developments in the field of biotechnology will have tremendous potential for breeding and genetics of processing vegetable crops in the future.
Commercial use of some of these techniques is now possible for specific crops.

International Symposium on Fruit & Vegetables for Processing

W.W. Collins

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1986.194.5