Plant breeding at Instituto Agronômico do Paraná: IAPAR

• Autor(a) principal: Moda-Cirino,Vânia
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Gerage,Antonio Carlos, Riede,Carlos Roberto, Sera,Gustavo Hiroshi, Takahashi,Mário, Abbud,Nelson Salim, Nazareno,Nilceu Ricetti Xavier de, Araújo,Pedro Mario de, Auler,Pedro Martins, Yamaoka,Ruy Seigi, Sera,Tumoru, Almeida,Wilson Paes de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-70332012000500004
• topic: Cultivars yield potential; disease resistance; tolerance to edaphoclimatic adverse factors; technological and nutritional quality

The plant breeding program at IAPAR started in 1972, soon after its foundation, and has as main objective the development of superior cultivars with high yield potential, genetic resistance to major biotic and abiotic adverse factors and good nutritional and technological quality. Over these forty years, IAPAR has made available to farmers 184 cultivars of different species, resulting in an increase in the productivity, greater availability of food, decrease in environmental impacts, addition of value to agricultural properties and life improvement of farmers and consumers. Thus, the institution fulfills its mission of generating technology, contributing to the development of agriculture in Paraná and in other parts of Brazil, since many of the cultivars developed are used in different regions of the country.