Innovative propagation methods in seed tuber multiplication programmes |
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Authors: | Paolo Ranalli |
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Institution: | (1) Istituto Sperimentale per le Colture Industriali, Via di Corticella 133, 40129 Bologna, Italy |
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Abstract: | Summary The production of large volumes of vitroplantlets and greenhouse tubers for increasing the rate of multiplication at the start
of seed programmes provides the opportunity of reducing the total number of field generations grown before the seed moves
into commerce. This implementation is especially useful for countries where high quality potato seed tubers cannot be produced
because there are no vector-free production areas.
This review covers the following steps: a) laboratory production of microplantlets and microtubers; b) minituber production
in the glasshouse; c) storage and dormancy of micro- and minitubers; d) field performance of micro- and minitubers compared
with conventional seed tubers; e) incorporation of the mentioned propagules in seed production systems.
Many optimized protocols are already available for propagating plantlets, inducing microtubers and obtaining minitubers in
the glasshouse at all periods of the year. Advanced molecular approaches techniques (RFLP and RAPD) to detect genetic variation
in the progeny of these propagules have been described. Investigations carried out in this field have shown genetic stability,
with the propagules usually reproducing plants true-to-type and tubers without deviants. By contrast, variations were demonstrated
in DNA extracted from old suspension cell culture. Field trials assessed a lower yield potential crops from in vitro propagules
compared with conventional seed tubers., mainly due to slow early crop development and the failure of plants caused by early
stress after emergence. This may cause problems when the growing season is short because of the necessity for planting late
to avoid night frosts and the mandatory haulm killing dates, common in many seed producing areas. Strategies for improving
the field performance of micro- and minitubers are discussed. The most promising crop husbandry techniques appear to be: a)
using tubers of a suitable physiological age, properly presprouted and encapsulated; b) optimizing the time application of
fertilizer and irrigation, and c) using floating films.
Outside the classical seed tuber areas of Northern Europe where the length of the growing period for pre-basic seed is usually
not more than 80 days, the growing season is long enough to obtain reasonable yields even from micro- and minitubers. |
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Keywords: | vitroplantlets microtubers minitubers genetic stability storage and physiological age field performance seed production programmes Solanum tuberosum L |
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