METHODS OF DAIKON BREEDING AND SEED PRODUCTION IN THE CRIMEA
Journal: VEGETABLE CROPS OF RUSSIA
Year: 2019

At the first stage of breeding, the new source material was created to obtain a variety of daikon resistant to abiotic factors with high productivity and commercial qualities, better taste, and biochemical properties. Eighteen samples from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, China, Korea, and Japan were in the nursery of the original forms. The following breeding types were used in the hybrid nursery: 1) crossing of several morphologically close samples originating from geographically remote areas; 2) pai