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2019 ASHS Annual Conference

Rosbreed: Sustaining Success in DNA-Informed Breeding Impacts for Rosaceae

Monday, July 22, 2019: 8:00 AM
Montecristo 3 (Tropicana Las Vegas)
Amy F. Iezzoni, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Nahla Bassil, USDA-ARS Corvallis, Corvallis, OR
Michael Coe, Cedar Lake Research Group, Portland
Chad E. Finn, USDA-ARS HCRU, Corvallis, OR
Ksenija Gasic, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Stan C. Hokanson, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN
James J Luby, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN
Dorrie Main, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
James R. McFerson, Washington State University, TFREC, Wenatchee, WA
John Norelli, USDA-ARS, Kearneysville, WV
Cameron Peace, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Vance M Whitaker, University of Florida, Wimauma, FL
Chengyan Yue, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Audio File Recorded Presentation
Breeders of crops in the Rosaceae family (including almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, strawberry, sweet cherry, and tart cherry) aim to develop new cultivars that combine both disease resistance and improved horticultural quality. In many cases, breeders are using resistance from wild and/or unadapted germplasm, and as a result, few have achieved commercial success because of difficulties in breeding cultivars with both excellent fruit quality and disease resistance. RosBREED, a USDA-NIFA- SCRI CAP project, addressed this need through a national coordinated effort that is enabling breeding programs of U.S. rosaceous crops to routinely apply modern genomics tools for efficient and effective delivery of cultivars with producer-required disease resistance and market-essential horticultural quality. Strategies used in the RosBREED project to build a base of genetic knowledge and translate this knowledge into breeding application will be presented.
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