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Advances and Perspectives for Polyploidy Breeding in Orchids
(2021-05)
The orchid market is a dynamic horticultural business in which novelty and beauty command high prices. The two main interests are the development of flowers, from the miniature to the large and showy, and their fragrance. ...
Polyploidy in Orchid Breeding, Advances and Perspectives
(2022-02-15)
The orchid market is a dynamic horticultural business in which novelty and beauty command
high prices. The development of miniature to large and showy flowers, in addition to fragrance,
is mainly of interest. Overall ...
Meiosis Research in Orphan and Non-orphan Tropical Crops
(2019-03-05)
Plant breeding is directly linked to the development of crops that can effectively adapt
to challenging conditions such as soil nutrient depletion, water pollution, drought, and
anthropogenic climate change. These ...
Latin America: Reduced S&T Investment Puts Sustainable Development at Risk
(2020)
Latin America is home to more than 600 million people and has considerable natural
and human resources. However, investment in science and technology (S&T) lags far behind that
in developed countries. This gap represents ...
Fanconi anemia ortholog FANCM regulates meiotic crossover distribution in plants
(2021-02-10)
Meiotic recombination increases genetic diversity and manipulation of its frequency and distribution holds great promise in crop breeding. In Arabidopsis thaliana, FANCM (a homolog of mammalian Fanconi anemia complementation ...
Embryo development in Carica papaya Linn
(2021-03-12)
Papaya (Carica papaya Linn.) is a tropical plant whose draft genome has been sequenced. Papaya produces large fruits rich in vitamins A and C and is an important cash crop in developing countries. Nonetheless, little is ...
Diversity in somatic DNA repair efficiencies between commercial inbred maize lines and native Central American purple landraces
(2021)
Maize is a staple food all over the world. Models for climate change suggest that, in the future, cloud formation might be reduced in the tropics increasing the exposure to Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation, a DNA-damaging ...
Diversity in mitotic DNA repair efficiencies between commercial inbred maize lines and native Central American purple landraces
(2022-10)
Background: Homologous recombination allows plants to repair double strand breaks in DNA, which if unrepaired
may lead to cell death. In this project, we determined the relative DNA repair efciency of the US inbred lines ...
Chromosome Engineering in Tropical Cash Crops
(2020-01-15)
Tropical and subtropical crops such as coffee, cacao, and papaya are valuable commodities, and their consumption is a seemingly indispensable part of the daily lives of billions of people worldwide. Conventional breeding ...
Mutation breeding in the cat and dwarf date palms
(2021-09-27)
In Costa Rica, the cat palm (Chamaedorea cataractarum) and the dwarf date palm (Phoenix roebelenii) are two popular ornamental cut-leaf crops. These two crops are easy to grow and maintain and produce leaves almost year-round. ...