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Doubled Haploid Broccoli (Brassica olearacea var. italica) Plants from Anther Culture
Broccoli (Brassica olearecea var. italica) is a cole crop grown for its floral heads and stalks. It is rich in bioactive chemicals good for human...
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Potential candidate genes and pathways related to cytoplasmic male sterility in Dianthus spiculifolius as revealed by transcriptome analysis
Key messageWe introduced the candidate gene DsHSP70 into Arabidopsis thaliana , resulting in male gametophyte sterility and abnormal degeneration of...
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Recent advances in development and utilization of double haploids (DHs) in economically important vegetable crops
Vegetable crops are important source of different nutrients and become a keystone in the balanced diets of every household by increasing the health...
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Production of Haploids and Doubled Haploids in Marigold (Tagetes spp.) Using Anther Culture
Homozygous parental lines are indispensable for commercial hybrid seed production in many ornamental and vegetable crops. The in vitro induction of...
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Anther Culture of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
Doubled haploid technology allows for producing completely homozygous plants in one generation, which is a very efficient and fast method compared to...
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Cherry
Chapter “Cherry” provides information about cherry’s origin, taxonomy, and breeding techniques of the species available around the world. Across the...
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Production of doubled haploid plants in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) via parthenogenesis
Double haploid production methods have great potential for accelerating breeding programs for cultivar development. Parthenogenesis, an embryo...
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Doubled Haploid Production in Watermelon
Doubled haploid (DH) technology is very advantageous in plant breeding. This technique is beneficial for reducing the time required to obtain pure...
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Mutation in BrGGL7 gene encoding a GDSL esterase / lipase causes male sterility in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L. ssp. pekinensis)
Key messageMutMap and KASP analyses revealed that the BrGGL7 gene is responsible for the male-sterile trait of ftms1 in Chinese cabbage, with...
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Behavior of Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill. Heat-Stressed Microspores Under In Vitro Culture Conditions as Evidenced by Microscopic Analysis
When constrained by in vitro culture conditions, microspores from Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill. (Barbary fig) anthers were forced to stall out...
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Anther Culture of Potato: Method and Applications
Anther culture provides a tool to produce haploid lines from cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), which has a tetraploid (2n = 4x = 48) genome...
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Pyramiding of drought adaptive traits and development of doubled haploids in the traits pyramided rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Introgression of traits through routine conventional breeding takes very long time, while doubled haploid technology reduces the breeding time...
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Occurrence of albinism during wheat androgenesis is correlated with repression of the key genes required for proper chloroplast biogenesis
Main conclusionThe phenomenon of albinism in wheat androgenesis is linked to the transcriptional repression of specific genes involved in chloroplast...
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Protocol for the Production of Doubled Haploid Plants of Brassica carinata
Brassica carinata, also known as Ethiopian or Abyssinian mustard, is a drought- and heat-tolerant oilseed with great potential as a dedicated...
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Anther Culture in Jatropha curcas L.: A Tree Species
The obstacles to breeding programs in Jatropha are the long reproductive cycle with a juvenile phase that lasts several months, the highly...
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cDNA-AFLP analysis of differentially expressed genes during microspore embryogenesis in non-heading Chinese cabbage
Stress can induce microspores to change their developmental pathway from the gametophytic to the embryogenic pathway. To explore the molecular...
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Tissue culture-based genetic improvement of fava bean (Vicia faba L.): analysis on previous achievements and future perspectives
Fava bean is an extremely important legume and serves immense potential to function as an ingredient as pulse proteins in human diet. Bearing the...
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Haploid Plant Production in Borage (Borago officinalis L.) by Anther Culture
Borage (Borago officinalis L.) is a crop with different culinary, pharmaceutical, and industrial properties. Besides, it is one of the best known...
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Identification of pollen and pistil polygalacturonases in Nicotiana tabacum and their function in interspecific stigma compatibility
Key messageThe pollen and pistil polygalacturonases in Nicotiana tabacum were identified and found to regulate pollen tube growth and interspecific... 
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Gynoecium pubescence in soybean: a prevalent false-positive during in vitro androgenesis
Doubled haploidy serves as an effective tool for enhancing genetic gain in plant breeding programs. Androgenesis, an extensively-employed form of...
