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Blackberries

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Temperate Fruit Crop Breeding

Abstract

Few crops are as genetically diverse as blackberry, with several Rubus species in its background. This diversity is being used by plant breeders to fill a myriad of marketing opportunities. Several strategies are being employed to broaden the climatic zone of blackberries including the development of primocane fruiting plants, mixing eastern and western germplasm and reducing chilling requirements. Efforts are also being made to improve harvest efficiency through appropriate architecture and thornlessness to keep hand and machine picking costs as low as possible. New knowledge about basic fruit chemistry and the volatiles associated with flavor is giving breeders opportunities they have never had in the past to improve fruit quality. While blackberries are more disease tolerant than raspberries, breeders are still working to develop resistance to major fungal diseases, and most recently, several virus diseases. Molecular tools have been developed to understand taxonomy and to explore the potential of marker assisted selection, although traditional plant breeding approaches are still the primary methods being used to develop new cultivars.

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Finn, C. (2008). Blackberries. In: Hancock, J.F. (eds) Temperate Fruit Crop Breeding. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6907-9_3

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