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Genetics and Breeding of Chili Pepper Capsicum spp.

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Production and Breeding of Chilli Peppers (Capsicum spp.)

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A breeding program involves several activities such as germplasm bank maintenance, evaluation of genetic diversity, selection of superior genotypes, progenitor’s selection, hybridization, and evaluation of segregating populations. These activities are necessary, in general, to develop new cultivars. A considerable number of researchers around the world are dedicated to Capsicum breeding programs. Their great challenge is to select high-yield cultivars resistant to pests and diseases, protect them against biotic and abiotic stresses, and improve their fruit quality, and ornamental potential, according to the purpose for use in industry or for fresh consumption. Market type, fruit or plant, has a number of traits that makes it commercially acceptable. Continuous breeding aimed at production and quality depends on the incorporation of new allelic forms into the new cultivars. To achieve their goals, breeders adopt the available breeding methods. In this chapter we further detail aspects of genetic variability, hybridization, genetic of quantitative traits, breeding methods, and postproduction of ornamental peppers showing the main results found by different groups of chili pepper breeders.

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Ramalho do Rêgo, E., Monteiro do Rêgo, M. (2016). Genetics and Breeding of Chili Pepper Capsicum spp.. In: Production and Breeding of Chilli Peppers (Capsicum spp.). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06532-8_4

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