Need and prospects for using tracer techniques in fruit breeding
Compared with staple food crops and fodder crops, the commercial value of fruits depends more on their quality than on their productivity. Modified screening techniques are therefore required for fruit crop improvement. The following are areas of fruit crop improvement in which tracer techniques could be used to speed up the progress: assessment of rootstocks and particularly their effect on vigour of growth and productivity of the trees; assessment of mutants productivity; assessment of adaptability to various habitats of fruit tree cultivars and rootstocks; and juvenility studies on fruit trees, aimed at shortening the juvenile stage. On each of these subjects background information is provided and suggestions are made concerning the scope of research. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Research Inst. of Pomology, Skiemiewice, Poland
- NSA Number:
- NSA-33-026376
- OSTI ID:
- 4019270
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Proceedings of tracer techniques for plant breeding, Vienna, Austria, 2 Dec 1974; Other Information: See STI/PUB--419; CONF-741261--. Orig. Receipt Date: 30-JUN-76; Related Information: Tracer techniques for plant breeding
- Country of Publication:
- IAEA
- Language:
- English
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