Development of Methods for Improving Flowering and Seed Set of Diverse Germplasm in Cassava Breeding.

ABSTRACT: Cassava breeding faces obstacles due to late flowering and poor flower and seed set. The acceleration of breeding processes and the reduction in each cycle's duration hinge upon efficiently conducting crosses to yield ample progeny for subsequent cycles. Our primary objective was to identify methods that provide tools for cassava breeding programs, enabling them to consistently and rapidly generate offspring from a wide array of genotypes. In greenhouse trials, we examined the effects of the anti-ethylene silver thiosulfate (STS) and the cytokinin benzyladenine (BA). STS, administered via petiole infusion, and BA, applied as an apical spray, combined with the pruning of young branches, significantly augmented the number of flowers. Controls produced no flowers, whereas treatments with prun

SUBMITTER: Hyde PT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10857246 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature