Molecular Focus Ushers in Exciting New Age of Berry Breeding

摘要

INNOVATIONS IN BERRY varieties have been key to grower success over the years. If we look back at the origin of berry varieties, we must go back to wild plants that either were selected and became varieties or were used as parents in subsequent breeding. Formal breeding of most crops, including berries, began in the early 1900s after the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's findings on the inheritance of traits in peas in 1905.