Brazil: Lentil is the focus of preventive genetic improvement research against pests

Published 2021년 7월 7일

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Embrapa Hortaliças is developing a lentil genetic improvement program aimed at creating cultivars suitable for Brazil's Center-South and Cerrado regions. The program's focus is on precocity, productivity, high nutritional value, mechanical harvestability, and disease resistance. The goal is to boost national production and reduce imports by offering farmers alternative crops during the dry winter period. The program also plans to develop differentiated lentil cultivars and resistant varieties to agricultural pests like fusarium wilt. This research could potentially establish Brazil as a lentil exporter to Asia, enhancing the country's trade balance.

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Generate cultivars adapted to the Center-South and Cerrado of Brazil, offering farmers an alternative to the dry winter period and, as a result, contribute to the increase in national production and the consequent reduction in imports, currently around 13.5 a thousand tons. This is one of the objectives of the lentil genetic improvement program developed by Embrapa Hortaliças (Brasília-DF), based on the pillars of precocity, productivity, high nutritional value, adaptation to mechanical harvesting and disease resistance/tolerance. The program also includes the development of new cultivars to serve certain “niches”, which are looking for differentiated products, such as orange or darker lentils, generally smaller than those found in the Brazilian market. The novelty among the lines of research that have been worked on by the program, and concerns preventive genetic improvement, aims to develop and make available to producers resistant varieties to agricultural pests of quarantine ...

Source: GrupoCultivar