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Raspberry - Breeding, Challenges and Advances (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Raspberry - Breeding, Challenges and Advances (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Raspberry is a globally-significant soft fruit crop, with
increasing interest to consumers due to its versatility and
health-related constituents. In this background context, it is
therefore timely to consider the present and future status of the
raspberry crop, particularly with the advances in the use of
molecular tools and plant phenotyping to improve our understanding
of improving crop quality and fruit yields. Since the 1980s a
wealth of fundamental genomics and metabolomics resources have been
developed for soft fruits including linkage maps, physical maps,
QTLs and expression tools. However, a number of serious and
emerging challenges exist for the raspberry industry, including the
plants' ability to resist major pest and disease burdens and the
impact of climate change on crop production, specifically water use
and water availability for soft fruit crops. This book aims to
address some of these challenges by updating the information known
about this important crop, its health value, the major pest and
diseases which affect raspberry and approaches for their control,
and the speed and precision offered by selective breeding programs
by the deployment of molecular tools and linkage maps for germplasm
assessment. Understanding the genetic control of commercially and
nutritionally important traits and the linkage of these
characteristics to molecular markers on chromosomes is the future
basis of plant breeding. We will also introduce the opportunity to
fast track breeding by improving the speed of phenotypic selection
by utilizing imaging sensor technologies, thereby reducing the cost
of years of field assessment through developing this knowledge into
markers linked to key fruit traits. The chapters of this book will
span the knowledge gained from the collaborations between growers,
plant breeders, plant physiologists, soil scientists, geneticists,
agronomists and physicists which is essential to achieve progress
in improving productivity and a sustainable industry.
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