Breeding sugar beets with globe-shaped roots: selection and agronomical performance

✍ Scribed by M. Mesken; J. Dieleman

• Book ID: 104620569
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 450 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0014-2336
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00043365

✦ Synopsis

Losses and costs during and after harvesting of sugar beets can be reduced by modifying the traditional shape of the roots . Crosses have been made between sugar beets and globe-shaped red table beets, and selection for root shape and sugar content was carried out in the progenies . The root yield of the selected material is equal to that of commercial varieties . The sugar content is still too low and the contents of juice impurities too high, but further selection can improve the material in these respects . The amount of dirt tare can be 40-60% less than that of the control variety .