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Progress and Prospect of Orchid Breeding: An Overview

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Orchids are valuable plants in the global floricultural market due to their unique flower structure, attractive flower colors, and long flower life. The most critical technique for obtaining ornamental cultivars of orchids is hybrid breeding. This technique is routine work but usually laborious and time consuming mainly due to the long generation time of orchids. The increasing demand for orchids in the floricultural trade might push breeders to produce more varieties with novel characteristics to ensure their competitiveness. Theoretically, the target traits could be focused on flower characteristics including their colors and morphology, and the ability of disease resistance to viruses or other pathogens. In orchid production, numerous intraspecific, intragenic, and intergenic hybrids have been produced and applied through the most commonly used traditional breeding. Using a range of advanced approaches, such as genetic engineering with the aid of multi-omics technologies and genome editing, orchid breeders might have more opportunities and higher efficiency to achieve their breeding goals in the future. This chapter summarized the past and current approaches and their findings in the field of orchid breeding and discussed their possible applications in the horticultural industry.

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  1. Department of Horticultural Science, Faculty of Agricultural Science, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

    Khosro Balilashaki & Fatemeh Feizi

  2. Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

    Zahra Dehghanian

  3. Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

    Vahideh Gougerdchi & Elaheh Kavusi

  4. College of Art Colleges of Landscape Architecture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

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  5. Department of Horticultural Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Maryam Vahedi

  6. Department of Botany, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh

    Mohammad Musharof Hossain

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Balilashaki, K. et al. (2023). Progress and Prospect of Orchid Breeding: An Overview. In: Tiwari, P., Chen, JT. (eds) Advances in Orchid Biology, Biotechnology and Omics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1079-3_9

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