Genetic Variability for Potato Improvement

ISBN-13: 9783659949128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 72 str.

Getachew Asefa

Opis

Potato is an important world crop. More than a billion people eat potatoes globally and Potato has been highly recommended by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as a food security crop. Studies on Genotypic variation is an essential component of any conventional crop breeding programme. Conventionally, plant breeders recombine the desired genes from crop varieties and related species by sexual hybridization, and develop new cultivars with the desirable traits such as high yield and resistance to disease, insect and pests, and drought. This book was assessed the the genetic variability of this crop for developing cultivars.

O autorze

Mr. Getachew Asefa is plant science graduated with a BSc. degree from Haramaya University, Ethiopia, MSc degree in Plant Breeding from the some University. He has been employed by Oromia Agricultural Research Institute at Sinana Agricultural Research Center. He has worked as plant breeder in Horticulture department.