Title
Public potato breeding progress for the Nordic Region of Europe: evidence from multisite testing of selected breeding clones and available released cultivars
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Publisher(s)
Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Abstract
The breeding of new cultivars is a powerful approach to increase both the quantity and quality of potato harvest per land unit. The aim of this research was to determine using multi-site testing the progress made by the genetic enhancement of potato in Sweden in the last 1.5 decades by comparing advanced breeding clones (T4 upwards) bred in Sweden (Svensk potatisförädling hereafter) versus available released cultivars in Europe and grown in its Nordic Region. The multi-site testing results show that potato breeding based in Scandinavia offers to the growers of the Nordic Region of Europe cultivars for prevailing farming environments and end-user needs rather than relying, as happens today in the market, on foreign cultivars. These cultivars bred elsewhere are not always very suitable for the challenging Nordic agroecosystems, as shown by the results of the multi-site testing herein. Such an approach on relying on foreign cultivars may be advocated for not funding potato breeding in, and for Fennoscandia by those ignoring the results shown by this research.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Agronomía
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85122496117
Source
Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B: Soil and Plant Science
Resource of which it is part
Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section B: Soil and Plant Science
ISSN of the container
09064710
Sponsor(s)
This research was possible through funding provided for Sveriges potatisförädling by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and from the Swedish Research Council Formas for both Sveriges potatisförädling (since 2011) and project Genomisk prediktion i kombination med högkapacitetsfenotypning för att öka potatisens knölskörd i ett föränderligt klimat (2020–2022). The authors acknowledge the fieldwork for planting and managing the multi-site trials by Boel Sandström and other staff of SLU in Umeå and to Hushallningssallskapet staff at both Helgegården and Mosslunda.
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