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The genetic improvement of the coffee aiming at high productivity is not an easy task. This is due to the existence of the juvenile period, to the need of evaluating several years of serial production to quantify the long term productive capacity, and to the existence of the pronounced annual oscillation of production where the coffee plantations are grown under full sun and without shade (Stevens, 1949). Efforts have been continuously made to improve the coffee productivity through research and development in coffee breeding and crop techniques. The program started in 1933 by Agronomic Institute of Campinas (IAC) obtained increases of up to 240% of productivity (Mundo Novo variety) in comparison to the first coffee brazilian cultivar denominated Arabica (Fonseca et al. 1978). The improvement methods normally applied in Brazil, consisted in the selection of individual plants, followed by the progenies evaluation, hybridization and genealogical selection. In addition, the backcross method has been applied for the transference of specific characters, such as short internodes and resistance to pests and diseases, present in other cultivars or in related species of Coffea arabica L. The selection of individual plants can be accomplished either in a commercial plantation, or in experimental fields especially planted with the purpose of genetic improvement. In the latter, the production is registered by several successive years for the identification of superior genotype (Medina et al., 1984).
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Sera, T. (2000). Development of Coffee Cultivars in Reduced Time by Using Biotechnology in the “IAPAR Model for High Density Planting”. In: Sera, T., Soccol, C.R., Pandey, A., Roussos, S. (eds) Coffee Biotechnology and Quality. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1068-8_4
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