Biodivers Data J
Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria, Unità di ricerca per la Selezione dei Cereali e la Valorizzazione delle varietà vegetali (CREA-SCV), Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Italy.
Published: September 2015
Evaluation and characterization are crucial steps in the exploitation of germplasm collections. The Sant'Angelo Lodigiano unit of the Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (CREA) maintains a broad collection of Triticum spp, including more than 4000 genotypes of T. aestivum. Such collection represents a wide source of genetic variability for many agronomic and qualitative traits, extremely useful in modern breeding programs. The collection size, however, makes very difficult its management as a whole. A reduced subset, representing the process of wheat breeding in Italy during the last hundred years, was hence identified for an in-depth characterization. The lines were cropped in two locations over two growing seasons, and analyzed using 16 morpho-agronomic and qualitative descriptors. Most of the analysed characters showed a broad variation throughout the collection, allowing to follow the plant ideotype changes across the breeding progress in Italy during the 20th century.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4563155 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4760 | DOI Listing |
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