The use of wild solanum species in German potato breeding of the past and today

1966 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Ross
Nematology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 689-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Ramsay ◽  
Glenn Bryan ◽  
Lydia Castelli ◽  
Mark Phillips ◽  
Vivian Blok

AbstractThe breadth of resistance to populations of the potato cyst nematodes, Globodera pallida and G. rostochiensis, which differed both in virulence level and country of origin, was investigated in 15 wild Solanum species. A range of responses to the populations was noted, with significant interactions observed between the potato genotypes and Globodera populations assayed. Of the 15 wild Solanum species, seven appeared to be potentially valuable sources of wide spectrum resistance with low multiplication rates with all populations recorded. The inclusion of these species into a potato breeding programme is justified by this study.


2020 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 103475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh R. Vetukuri ◽  
Laura Masini ◽  
Rebecca McDougal ◽  
Preeti Panda ◽  
Levine de Zinger ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 98 (6) ◽  
pp. 680-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. H. Jansky ◽  
R. Simon ◽  
D. M. Spooner

Host plant resistance offers an attractive method of control for early blight (caused by the foliar fungus Alternaria solani), a widespread disease that appears annually in potato crops worldwide. We tested the assumed ability of taxonomy to predict the presence of early blight resistance genes in wild Solanum species for which resistance was observed in related species. We also tested associations to ploidy, crossing group, breeding system, and geography. As in a prior study of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (white mold) resistance, tremendous variation for resistance to early blight was found to occur within and among species. There was no discernable relationship between the distribution of resistant phenotypes and taxonomic series (based on an intuitive interpretation of morphological data), clade (based on a cladistic analysis of plastid DNA data), ploidy, breeding system, geographic distance, or climate parameters. Species and individual accessions with high proportions of early blight resistant plants were identified, but high levels of inter- and intra-accession variability were observed. Consequently, the designation of species or accessions as resistant or susceptible must take this variation into account. This study calls into question the assumption that taxonomic or geographic data can be used to predict sources of early blight resistance in wild Solanum species.


Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sjon Hartman ◽  
Nienke van Dongen ◽  
Dominique M.H.J. Renneberg ◽  
Rob A.M. Welschen-Evertman ◽  
Johanna Kociemba ◽  
...  

The increasing occurrence of floods hinders agricultural crop production and threatens global food security. The majority of vegetable crops are highly sensitive to flooding and it is unclear how these plants use flooding signals to acclimate to impending oxygen deprivation (hypoxia). Previous research has shown that the early flooding signal ethylene augments hypoxia responses and improves survival in Arabidopsis. To unravel how cultivated and wild Solanum species integrate ethylene signaling to control subsequent hypoxia acclimation, we studied the transcript levels of a selection of marker genes, whose upregulation is indicative of ethylene-mediated hypoxia acclimation in Arabidopsis. Our results suggest that ethylene-mediated hypoxia acclimation is conserved in both shoots and roots of the wild Solanum species bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara) and a waterlogging-tolerant potato (Solanum tuberosum) cultivar. However, ethylene did not enhance the transcriptional hypoxia response in roots of a waterlogging-sensitive potato cultivar, suggesting that waterlogging tolerance in potato could depend on ethylene-controlled hypoxia responses in the roots. Finally, we show that ethylene rarely enhances hypoxia-adaptive genes and does not improve hypoxia survival in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). We conclude that analyzing genes indicative of ethylene-mediated hypoxia acclimation is a promising approach to identifying key signaling cascades that confer flooding tolerance in crops.


1970 ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
J. Sherly, R. Renuka

Five wild Solanum species were screened against dry root rot disease in glass house condition with commonly cultivated brinjal as control. The disease was scored at different day’s interval on 30th, 45th and 60th days after planting (DAP). Among the wild species screened and evaluated the species S. torvum was observed without any disease incidence i.e (0). The least per cent of disease incidence was observed in S. incanum (38.60%) which was followed by S. xanthocarpum (42.80%), S. viarum (64.20%) and CO2 (78.50 %) susceptible check at 30 DAP. Secondary metabolites were analysed from both wild and control plants. Based on the per cent disease incidence values S. torvum was graded as ‘Resistant’ against M. phaseolina and can be recommended as a best rootstock for brinjal under varying climatic condition especially where the dry climate prevails.


2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 755-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Rahman ◽  
M.A. Rashid ◽  
M.M. Hossain ◽  
M.A. Salam ◽  
A.S.M.H. Masum

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