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The sea beet (Beta vulgaris L. ssp.maritima) of the adriatic coast as source of resistance for sugar beet

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Conclusions

The sea beet is considered the ancestral species from which the different types of cultivated beet originate. Its hybridation is easy because of its evolutionary proximity, unlike with other species of the GenusBeta. These traits have long made the sea beet the subject of research aimed at targeting and isolating its useful characters which could then be transferred to cultivated beet.

The sea beet collected at the mouth of the Po di Levante river in the early 1900s has given more appreciable results than any of the other biotypes from different origins. Indeed, it was from this biotype that today’s most developed genetic resistance to serious diseases such as cercospora and rhizomania was isolated.

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  1. Istituto Sperimentale per le Colture Industriali, 82-C.P., 45100, Bologna, Rovigo, Viale Amendola, Italy

    Piergiorgio Stevanato, Marco De Biaggi, Mauro Colombo & Enrico Biancardi

  2. Hellenic Sugar Industry, Thessaloniki, Greece

    George N. Skaracis

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Stevanato, P., Biaggi, M.D., Skaracis, G.N. et al. The sea beet (Beta vulgaris L. ssp.maritima) of the adriatic coast as source of resistance for sugar beet. Sugar Tech 3, 77–82 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03014567

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