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- Title
Participatory tomato breeding for organic conditions in Italy.
- Authors
Campanelli, G.; Acciarri, N.; Campion, B.; Delvecchio, S.; Leteo, F.; Fusari, F.; Angelini, P.; Ceccarelli, Salvatore
- Abstract
Participatory plant breeding (PPB) has been proposed as a breeding methodology to increase/optimize the development and adoption of several new varieties each one different and each adapted to individual microclimates. Tomato is an important horticultural crop in Europe, and in particular in Italy, and there is an increasing demand for organic tomatoes. Therefore, a PPB program was considered as the ideal approach to rapidly develop and deliver in each organic microclimate, a number of different tomato lines directly selected under organic conditions. Visual selection was applied by farmers and researchers in four F populations and in the F families obtained from selected F plants grown in unreplicated row and column designs in five locations. The agronomic performance of the F-derived F families at the end of two cycles of selection was evaluated by comparing the selected materials with commercial hybrids. Production traits and qualitative plant and fruit traits (plant vigor and hardiness, disease resistance, fruit quality) were analysed. A total of 15 F families was identified, of which three out-yielded significantly the respective commercial F hybrid, and twelve did not differ significantly from it. The putative superior varieties that are being developed from the F families represent important genetic material for organic agriculture, since they would assure good productive capacity and a seed availability at low cost.
- Subjects
ITALY; TOMATO breeding; ORGANIC farming; AGRONOMY; MICROCLIMATOLOGY; SEED production (Botany)
- Publication
Euphytica, 2015, Vol 204, Issue 1, p179
- ISSN
0014-2336
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10681-015-1362-y