Mutations in potatoes induced by gamma irradiation

✍ Scribed by Lars Roer

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1967
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 636 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0014-2336
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00043463

✦ Synopsis

The report deals with experiments in which gamma irradiation was applied to induce somatic mutations in potato clones . The best results are obtained when an irradiation dose of 3200 r is applied .

Most of the aberrants recognized were colour mutations or leaf mutations . All these aberrants were inferior to the original clones when tested in yield trials .

In the variety Pimpernel occurred a mutant with definitely shorter stolons than the original clone. Unfortunately this character was correlated with a great tendency of the tubers to cracking and the clone will not be released . for commercial growing .

The possibilities of using artificial induction of mutations in potato breeding are briefly discussed .