What breeding technique can be adopted for salinity tolerance in turmeric and ginger apart from selection method?
You can start with Marker assisted breeding to find out the salinity tolerance in turmeric and ginger
The best breeding approach for tumeric and ginger would be the use of tissue culture methods which would promote genetic realignment from the use of high hormone content. I would then assay the recombinant off types under saline propagation. The next step would be the assay for commercial types. A second option would be use of mutation breeding with testing on saline test trial plus the reselection for commercial types. While there are not restrictions in the first two methods the other option would be the use of genetic modification using genetic characters from microbes or other species which would show promise related to saline conditions. GMO ginger would face a lot of obstacles of a regulatory nature.
Breeding for saline environments includes the development of rapid and reliable techniques of screening for elongation ability and tolerance for salinity. Identify the donor germplasm and its inheritance for tolerance.
Refined mapping using near-isogenic lines for the development of polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based marker-assisted selection (MAS) is now possible. MAS techniques are being developed for elongation ability and tolerance of salinity.
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