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Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is a major temperate zone crop which produces approximately 40% of the world’s sucrose (1). Conventional breeding strategies although successful in the introduction of characteristics such as cold, drought and disease tolerance have been unsuccessful in increasing the fresh weight concentration of sucrose to more than 18% (2). Continued selection is unlikely to lead to further improvements in sugar yield due to the strong negative correlation between root dry mass and sugar concentration (3).
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Brown, S.J., Gartland, K.M.A., Slater, A., Hall, J.F., Elliott, M.C. (1990). Plant Growth Regulator Manipulations in Sugar Beet. In: Nijkamp, H.J.J., Van Der Plas, L.H.W., Van Aartrijk, J. (eds) Progress in Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2103-0_74
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