Coffee selection and breeding :
The principal sections of this review are entitled: breeding populations (with information on useful mutants and varieties of Coffea arabica and on C. canephora); selection criteria (including yield and its components, aspects of quality, resistance to disease, pests and drought and suitability for mechanical harvesting); reproductive systems and controlled pollination, with information on floral biology, artificial hybridization pollen storage, seed development and storage, and vegetative propagation); resistance to coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix); resistance to coffee berry disease (Colletotrichum coffeanum [Glomerella cingulata]); phytotonic effects of fungicides; selection for yield and quality (with information on heritability and heterosis); interspecific hybridization; and breeding strategies; seed or clonal varieties
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| Format: | biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Londres (RU) Croom Helm
1985
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| Subjects: | COFFEA ARABICA, COFFEA CANEPHORA, SELECCION, VARIEDADES DE RENDIMIENTO ELEVADO, RESISTENCIA A LA ENFERMEDAD, RESISTENCIA A LAS PLAGAS, RESISTENCIA A LA TEMPERATURA, POLINIZACION, HIBRIDACION, CLONES, HEMILEIA VASTATRIX, COLLETOTRICHUM COFFEANUM, GLOMERELLA CINGULATA, |
| Online Access: | http://orton.catie.ac.cr/repdoc/ |
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