Project Number: 3655-21000-039-06
Project Type: Specific C/A

Start Date: Sep 24, 2004
End Date: Aug 31, 2007

Objective:
Screen populations of Solanum andigena (adg) in sugar-end disorder inducing environments and identify sources of resistance that can be used as parents in cultivar breeding.

Approach:
Tubers will be generated on multiple seedlings of a representative sample of at least 100 adg families, and planted in replicated plots in Weslaco, TX and ND with standards known to be relatively resistant and susceptible. Families and individuals with acceptable growth and sugar-end resistance will be identified and preserved. Crosses will be made to standard cultivar breeding parents and progeny tested to determine if adg can contribute superior genetic resistance to sugar-end among new selections that meet other standards for successful new cultivars.

Project Team

Bamberg, John Asunta Thompson - Professor 920-743-5406

Related National Programs

Plant, Microbial & Insect Genetic Res., Genomics, & Genetic Improv. I (301)