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  4. COMBINING MOLECULAR AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT PHENOTYPING BREEDING APPROACHES TO IMPROVE YIELD, QUALITY AND DISEASE RESISTANCE IN TOMATO AND SPINACH.

COMBINING MOLECULAR AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT PHENOTYPING BREEDING APPROACHES TO IMPROVE YIELD, QUALITY AND DISEASE RESISTANCE IN TOMATO AND SPINACH.

Objective

i. Introgress and characterize resistance genes in Texas A&M germplasm.ii. Improve fruit nutritional content, firmness and post-harvest shelf-life in tomatoiii. Enhance vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) content in spinachiv. Evaluate the nutritional potential of spinach seed for grain productionv. Develop high throughput phenotyping methods as breeding tool for tomato and spinach characterization and trait evaluation.

Investigators
Avila, Ca.
Institution
Texas A&M University
Start date
2021
End date
2021
Funding Source
Nat'l. Inst. of Food and Agriculture
Project number
TEX0-1-9618
Accession number
1026646
Categories
Bacterial Pathogens
Commodities
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