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Progress in grapevine breeding in China over a decade
J.L. Zhu* and C.X. Yang
College of Agronomy Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China;
*Corresponding author: zhujl@gsau.edu.cn
In order to meet the requirements of fast growth in the Chinese grape industry,
grapevine breeding has received great attention and been threatened in China in the last ten
years. There have been more than 20 units conducting active grapevine breeding programs across
the country. The aspect of the effort is obvious. There have been 68 new varieties of grapevine
that have been released from these programs. Among them, thirty eight are table grape, others
are rootstock or for wine production. The selection of table grapevine varieties carrying
characteristics such as disease resistance, early ripening, high tolerance in storage and
transportation, seedlessness and having amrose-scented aroma is the main target in these
breeding programs. Cross breeding is still the main method for producing new varieties of
grapevine. However, other methods such as seedling selection, asexual selection, and induced
mutation breeding and biological technologies have been used by more and more researchers in
their work in recent years. The results are also promising. All these progresses are reviewed in
the article.
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