New biotechnological tools to accelerate scab-resistance trait transfer to apple
AUTOR(ES)
Cusin, Roberta, Revers, Luís Fernando, Maraschin, Felipe dos Santos
FONTE
Genet. Mol. Biol.
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
13/02/2017
RESUMO
Abstract Apple is a fruit crop cultivated worldwide. Apple orchards are exposed to a diverse set of environmental and biological factors that affect the productivity and sustainability of the culture. Many of the efforts and costs for apple production rely on reducing the incidence of fungal diseases, and one of the main diseases is apple scab caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis. The economic impact of scab on apple productivity has guided many breeding programs to search for cultivars resistant to apple scab. Introgression from wild relatives has been successful to some extent, and genetic engineering for resistant cultivars has even been employed. This review presents the techniques used to the present time to obtain pathogen-resistant apple cultivars and introduces new biotechnological approaches based on plant plasmids that show promising results for delivering genetic traits with a short-term perspective.
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