Philippines: Institute of Plant Breeding houses four new mango selections
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게시됨 2022년 7월 9일
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The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) on June 8, 2022, announced nine new varieties and selections of mangoes. The Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB) identified these mangoes after evaluating more than 200 accessions in different regions of the country. IPB is continuously screening more mangoes but a 2015 paper authored by Carolyn Alcasid detailed that 87 of these accessions were located inside the property of the IPB.
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READ: 9 new varieties that will strengthen the Philippine mango industry The IPB, which is located inside the University of the Philippines – Los Baños (UPLB), is the lead agency for crop breeding research in the Philippines. Inside IPB is the National Plant Genetic Resources Laboratory (NPGRL) which serves as the national repository of all crops in the Philippines except for rice. The IPB has several facilities including a gene bank and production areas which was the reason why several accessions were found inside the IPB. Out of the 87 accessions in the IPB, Alcasid and her team identified four promising selections, namely the IPB Carabao 1, Carotene mango, Tommy Atkins mango, and the Carabao strain 12-053. The IPB Carabao 1 was found to be promising due to its moderate tolerance to anthracnose, a disease that commonly affects commercially available mango varieties. It is a fungal disease caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and can affect mango trees in all stages of ...