Cultivar improvement via controlled sport induction (CSI)

Author: Amit Dhingra, Bruce Barritt

Published: 2008

Summary: The objectives of this project were: 1. Using tissue culture, establish cultures from selected apple cultivars 2. Standardize the technique for efficient sport induction 3. Perform a pilot experiment with tissue culture material for identifying allelic diversity for the genes that regulate fruit firmness (ACC-synthase and ACC-oxidase)

Keywords:

• Apple
• Post-Harvest
• Gene trait relationships
• Controlled sport induction
• Cultivar improvement