Raspberry: Breeding, Challenges and Advances
Raspberry: Breeding, Challenges and Advances
by Julie Graham
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319990306 | 164 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
by Julie Graham
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319990306 | 164 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
Raspberry is a globally-significant soft fruit crop, with increasing interest to consumers due to its versatility and health-related constituents. In this background context, it is therefore timely to consider the present and future status of the raspberry crop, particularly with the advances in the use of molecular tools and plant phenotyping to improve our understanding of improving crop quality and fruit yields. Since the 1980s a wealth of fundamental genomics and metabolomics resources have been developed for soft fruits including linkage maps, physical maps, QTLs and expression tools. However, a number of serious and emerging challenges exist for the raspberry industry, including the plants’ ability to resist major pest and disease burdens and the impact of climate change on crop production, specifically water use and water availability for soft fruit crops.