Claim · model-written summary
The authors state that the combined methodology is an alternative to traditional breeding methods for salt tolerance in avocado.
- Taxon
- avocado
Persea americanae0 - Outcome
- an alternative to traditional breeding methodse0
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Verbatim
e0“Therefore this methodology appears as an alternative to traditional breeding methods, particularly for improving agronomic characteristics such as salt tolerance in avocado”
Title
Jorge Luı́s Fuentes; L. Santiago; Amaury Álvarez; et al. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) 2009
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Germination rates of whole embryos in vitro were higher with mature rather than immature embryos in avocado.
- Observation Almost 80% of whole-embryo plantlets were successfully acclimatized under greenhouse conditions.
- Method / resource An in vitro propagation method for avocado breeding was optimized and documented.
- Observation A mutagenic dose of gamma rays giving LD50 of 27-28 Gy was established for avocado embryos.
- Observation A selective NaCl dose giving LD20 of 157 mM was established for avocado embryos.
- Observation Putative mutant lines were developed from salt tolerant avocado rootstocks.
- Observation An avocado gene bank was established in the study.
- Recommendation The authors state that bud multiplication methods in avocado need improvement.