Melhoramento da batata doce
Genética da batata doce
Palavras-chave:
batata doce, caracteres mendelianos, polpa branca, raízes roxas, ramas verdesResumo
1 — Based on the behaviour of plants which were grown by true seed resulting from natural pollination, 3 different varieties of sweet potatoes showed a segregation which appear to define their hybrid constitution.
2 — Green stem, white skin, white flesh and entire leaves are roported to be dominant to purple stem, purple skin, yellow flesh and lobate leaves respectively.
3 — On the data collected, the Author found a true monofatorial ratio for those caracteres, thesé¢ symbois beeing suggested:
VV for stem green (verde) color;
BB for white (branco) skin color;
EE for whitish (esbranquicado) flesh color;
CC for heart shaped (cordiforme) leaves.
Referências
Menezes, O. B., — 1950 — Relatório da S. Genética, Instituto de Ec. Exp. Agrícolas — S. N.P. A. (N. Publ.)
Menezes, O. B., — 1952 — I — Melhoramento da Batata Doce. Florescimento e Frutificagio. Em Publ.
Menezes, O. B., — 1952 — V — Melhoramento da Batata Doce — Espacamento. Em Publ.
Wada, U. — 1925 -- Experiments on the breeding and heredity of sweet potato (Abs. in Exp. St. Rec. 1925, vol. 53, 831.
