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The Contribution of Traditional Potato Breeding to Scientific Potato Improvement
2011-12-01
Abstract excerpt
Conventional potato breeding refers to development of new cultivars from sexual crosses followed by clonal propagation and selection. Nearly all new varieties of potato still emerge from this process free from modern technologies of gene insertion. Conventional breeding remains the most important force for introduction of new phenotypes underlain by new genes. However, these come from already selected potato breed...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ea80b400-ac61-5fc5-a6b5-a06277a4f67b
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11540-011-9199-9