Citrus germplasm is conserved in genebanks at sites around the world to provide genetic
resources for breeding and research programs. The value of genebank collections is …

Citrus is among the most economically important fruit crops. Its vast species diversity and
global production was observed by NI Vavilov during his international plant explorations …

Citrus is an economically important world tree fruit crop with production in more than 146
countries. The center of origin for citrus is considered to be Southeastern Asia including …

Four programs headquartered in Riverside, California are concerned with the acquisition,
maintenance, evaluation, enhancement, and distribution of citrus genetic resources …

Citrus is one of the most important fruit crops grown in the subtropical and tropical areas of
the world and has great economic, health, religious, and cultural values. While there are …

Genetic resource is the part of the organisms that can reproduce identical copies of the
organism with identical genomic profiles. Generally, seeds, pollen, bud wood are …

Citrus is one of the major fruit crops of the world, with production in subtropical and tropical
areas of six continents. Citrus originated in south eastern Asia. Many of the forests in this …

Plant 'germplasm'is living tissue from which new plants can be grown, containing the
complete and unique genetic information that gives plants their individual characteristics …

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This chapter describes traditional strategies used by breeding programs around the world,
and how they have resulted in improved citrus varieties. The first part examines scion …