Volume 30 Number 1 Article 26 Pages: 25-25
Year 1976 Month 1
Title: Relationship Between Quality and Pest and Disease Resistance in Strawberries
Author: R.S. Bringhurst
Citation
Abstract:
Fruit quality may mean appearance,
durability, flavor, nutritional content
or many other things depending upon
the judge of it; and it may or may not be possible to agree upon a combination
of traits which can be selected
for, effectively and efficiently.
Disease
and pest resistance are also relative
and transient, and selection for them
is a continuous process; select a given
combination of desirable traits and
simultaneously you select the combination
of diseases and pests that will
eventually afflict that selection when
it is placed in monoculture.
This is
particularly a problem with clonally
propagated species such as strawberries.
The very successful 'Tioga'
strawberry illustrates this since it.
solved a number of disease and pest
problems that were important on the
varieties it replaced.
However, within
the few years that it has dominated
strawberry culture in California, several
"new" problems have become important
and others are certain to appear.
Thus, there is no final solution
to diseases and pests and breeding
must be recognized as a continuing
activity with the effort and cost justified
just as long as significant advances
are realized.
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