Breeding in Africa for Africa
Traditionally, sweetpotato breeding programs have taken a long time, 7 to 8 years, to produce a new variety. Moreover, as of 2008, most countries in Africa had no real breeding program and relied on testing materials developed elsewhere. This flyer explains the work done by 13 active breeding progra...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
2015
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/69070 |
Similar Items: Breeding in Africa for Africa
- Selection of parents in a population hybrid breeding scheme for sweetpotato in Uganda
- Breeding orange-fleshed sweetpotato varieties for East Africa.
- Early-stage phenotyping of sweet potato virus disease caused by sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus and sweet potato virus C to support breeding
- Benefits of participatory plant breeding (PPB) as exemplified by the first-ever officially released PPB-bred sweet potato cultivar
- Release of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas [l.] Lam.) cultivars in Mozambique through an accelerated breeding scheme
- Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.)