Breeding for higher productivity in mulberry

Kunjupillai Vijayan, Prem Prakash Srivastava, P. Jayarama Raju and Beera Saratchandra
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Kunjupillai Vijayan: Central Silk Board, BTM Layout, Madiwala, Bangalore, India
Prem Prakash Srivastava: Central Silk Board, BTM Layout, Madiwala, Bangalore, India
P. Jayarama Raju: Central Silk Board, BTM Layout, Madiwala, Bangalore, India
Beera Saratchandra: Central Silk Board, BTM Layout, Madiwala, Bangalore, India

Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 2012, vol. 48, issue 4, 147-156

Abstract: Mulberry (Morus L.) is an economically important tree being cultivated for its leaves to rear the silkworm Bombyx mori. Rearing of silkworm is an art and science popularly known as sericulture; an agrobased cottage industry provides employment to millions in China, India, Korea, Vietnam, etc. Mulberry is a perennial tree that maintains high heterozygosity due to the outbreeding reproductive system. It is recalcitrant to most of the conventional breeding methods, yet considerable improvement has been made in leaf yield and leaf quality. Conventional breeding in mulberry is a tedious, labour intensive and time taking process, which needs to be complemented with modern biotechnological methods to speed up the process. This article enumerates the problems, challenges, constraints and achievements in mulberry breeding along with recent advances in biotechnology and molecular biology to enable mulberry breeders to tackle specific problems more systematically and effectively.

Keywords: association mapping; QTL mapping; Morus L.; sericulture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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