Developments in breeding of Agaricus bisporus var. bisporus: progress made and technical and legal hurdles to take.

ABSTRACT: True breeding of button mushrooms has hardly been done in the last decades, despite this species being one of the most cultivated mushrooms worldwide. Research done in the last 20 years has identified and characterised new germplasm and improved our understanding of the genetic base for some traits. A substantial collection of wild-collected strains is now available and partly characterised for a number of important traits such as disease resistance and yield. Most of the variations found in a number of important agronomic traits have a considerable heritability and are thus useful for breeding. Genetic marker technology has also developed considerably for this mushrooms in the last decade and used to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) for important agronomic traits. This progress has,

SUBMITTER: Sonnenberg AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5309338 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature