Ornamental Crops

Ornamental plants are economically important worldwide. Both growers and consumers ask continuously for new, improved varieties. Although there are numerous ornamental species, ornamental plant breeding and plant breeding research is mainly limited to some major species. This book focuses on the recent advances and achievements in ornamental plant breeding. The first part of the book focuses on plant traits and breeding techniques that are typical for ornamental plants. Eminent research groups write these general chapters. For plant traits like flower colour or shape, breeding for disease resistance and vase or shelf life are reviewed. General technical plant breeding chapters deal with mutation breeding, polyploidisation, in vitro breeding techniques and new developments in molecular techniques. The second part of the book consists of crop-specific chapters. Here all economically major ornamental species are handled together with selected representative species from different plant groups (cut flowers, pot plants, woody ornamental plants). In these crop-specific chapters, the main focus is on recent scientific achievements over the last decade.

Auteur

Dr. Johan Van Huylenbroeck is a plant breeder at the Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO) in Belgium. Besides practical breeding, he also coordinates numerous research projects on ornamental plants. Since 2006, he leads the Applied Breeding and Genetics group, a team of 20 researchers and 30 technical staff members. His research focuses mainly on (1) the development of efficient hybridization and selection strategies, (2) the creation of cultivars for sustainable agriculture and horticulture; (3) the use of DNA markers assisted breeding techniques for quantitative and qualitative traits and (4) marker-based analysis of genetic diversity and identity. In close collaboration with the industry, his group runs breeding programs in a.o. azalea, outdoor roses and woody ornamentals. Specific breeding goals in woody ornamentals are disease resistance, enlargement of the existing diversity via interspecific hybridization and compact growing plants.

Contenu

1. The Role of Biodiversity and Plant Conservation for Ornamental Breeding

Chunlin Long, Zhe Chen, Ying Zhou and Bo Long

2. The genetic basis of floral organ identity and its applications in ornamental plant breeding

Mathilde Chopy, Patrice Morel, Enrico Costanzo, Suzanne Rodrigues Bento, Pierre Chambrier and Michiel Vandenbussche

3. Flower color and its engineering by genetic modification

Naoko Okitsu, Naonobu Noda, Chandler Steve, Yoshikazu Tanaka

4. Breeding and genetics for shelf and vase life

Heiko Mibus

5. Breeding for Disease Resistance in Ornamentals

Leen Leus

6. Plant Tissue Culture Techniques for Breeding

Mark P. Bridgen, Wouter Van Houtven and Tom Eeckhaut

7. Ploidy breeding in ornamentals

Tom Eeckhaut, Jeroen Van der Veken, Emmy Dhooghe, Leen Leus, Katrijn Van Laere and Johan Van Huylenbroeck

8. Mutation Breeding in Ornamentals

Rusli Ibrahim, Zaiton Ahmad, Shakinah Salleh, Affrida Abu Hassan and Sakinah Ariffin

9. New developments in molecular techniques for breeding in ornamentals

Marinus JM Smulders and Paul Arens

10. Alstroemeria

Mark P. Bridgen

11. Azalea

Jan De Riek, Ellen De Keyser, Evelien Calsyn, Tom Eeckhaut, Johan Van Huylenbroeck and Nobuo Kobayashi

12. Caladium

Zhanao Deng

13. Calathea

Johan Van Huylenbroeck, Evelien Calsyn, Andy Van den Broeck, René Denis and Emmy Dhooghe

14. Chrysanthemum

Jaap Spaargaren and Geert van Geest

15. Dianthus

Takashi Onozaki

16. Fuchsia

Mario de Cooker, Edwin Goulding, Henk Waldenmaier, and Paul Berry

17. Gerbera

Zhanao Deng and Krishna Bhattarai

18. Helleborus

Emmy Dhooghe, Julia Sparke, Peter Oenings, Thierry Van Paemel, Marie-Christine Van Labeke and Traud Winkelmann

19. Kalanchoë

Kathryn Kuligowska Mackenzie, Henrik Lütken, Lívia Lopes Coelho, Maja Dibbern Kaaber, Josefine Nymark Hegelund and Renate Müller

20. Lilium

Jaap M. Van Tuyl, Paul Arens, Arwa Shahin, Agnieszka Marasek-Ciolakowska, Rodrigo Barba-Gonzalez, Hyoung Tae Kim and Ki-Byung Lim

21. Limonium

Ed Morgan, Keith Funnell

22. Ornamental pepper

Elizanilda Ramalho do Rêgo and Mailson Monteiro do Rêgo

23. Phalaenopsis

Chia-Chi Hsu, Hong-Hwa Chen and Wen-Huei Chen

24. Primula

Juntaro Kato, Mayuko I. Inari, Mai Hayashi, Junji Amano, Hiroaki Ohasahi and Masahiro Mii

25. Ranunculus

Margherita Beruto, Mario Rabaglio, Serena Viglione, Marie-Christine Van Labeke and Emmy Dhooghe

26. Rhododendron

Stephen L. Krebs

27. Rose

Leen Leus, Katrijn Van Laere, Jan De Riek and Johan Van Huylenbroeck

28. Tulip

Teresa Orlikowska, Magorzata Podwyszyska, Agnieszka Marasek-Cioakowska, Dariusz Sochacki and Roman Szymaski

29. Woody ornamentals of the temperate zone

Katrijn Van Laere, Stan C. Hokanson, Ryan Contreras and Johan Van Huylenbroeck