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Development of interspecific hybrid plants between Daucus carota and Apium graveolens by somatic hybridization
Project
Project code: BAZ-IGK-02-1164
Contract period: 01.11.2002
- 31.12.2005
Purpose of research: Applied research
Carrot Daucus carota and celery Apium graveolens are the economically most important Apiaceae worldwide. Both species are subject of intensive breeding. There are comprehensive activities in the breeding research concerning the resistances of fungal pathogens and pest, the development of hybrid systems, the improvement of the quality of useful organs and the developing of marker systems.
Main goal of the project is to open new genetic resources by using interspecific hybridisation by means of protoplast fusion and to extend the genetic variability of the plasmon and the genome of both carrot and celery.
First somatic hybrids from the fusion combination Daucus carota and Apium graveolens were produced. The characterisation of these plants is in progress.
Section overview
Subjects
- Plant Breeding
- Vegetable Gardening
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Institute for Breeding Research on Horticultural Crops (JKI-ZG)
