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Visiting Sweet Potato from a Breeding Perspective: An Update

Version 1 : Received: 14 April 2022 / Approved: 15 April 2022 / Online: 15 April 2022 (14:58:08 CEST)

How to cite: AB, S.; Kaushik, P. Visiting Sweet Potato from a Breeding Perspective: An Update. Preprints 2022, 2022040149. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202204.0149.v1 AB, S.; Kaushik, P. Visiting Sweet Potato from a Breeding Perspective: An Update. Preprints 2022, 2022040149. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202204.0149.v1

Abstract

Sweet potatoes are a crucial crop for Asian and African countries. Its nutritional content and capacity to keep you healthy have increased in recent years. Moreover, sweet potatoes' fibre also keeps your gut happy. Most sweet potato varieties don't bloom. Due to pollination issues, sweet potatoes are also incompatible with each other. Sweet potato blooms are self-sterile, so they don't mix well in breeding programmes. Traditional and modern breeding procedures didn't always work with sweet potatoes, but some did. Using molecular biology methods, some individuals become more resistant to illnesses by eliminating particular genes. The crop's nature and growth should be improved. All of this should be done to acquire new characteristics in sweet potatoes by crossing them. Sweet potatoes are a superb tuberous crop, but they have issues with pollination and adjusting to new breeding procedures. Modern breeding and biotechnology methods can be used to get the most out of this crop. These are "chronological" ways to get the most out of farming.

Keywords

sweet potato; breeding; genetics; genomics; health

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Agricultural Science and Agronomy

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