Current Research in Agriculture and Horticulture Vol. 1

Chen, Lanzhuang; Comlan, M.; Akpavi, Sêmihinva; Thérèse, Edorh; Ojha, ML; Kumar, Vijay; Verma, R. B.; Pal, M.; Singh, Sudhakar; Singh, Prabhjot; Lennox, James; Agbo, B. E.; Nyamador, Seth Wolali; Mondedji, Abla Déla; Kasseney, Boris Dodji; Ketoh, Guillaume Koffivi; Koumaglo, Honoré Kossi; Glitho, Isabelle Adolé; R.M.Perumal,; Prabhu, M.; Kannan, M.; Srinivasan, S.; Branco, Roberto Botelho Ferraz; Blat, Sally Ferreira; Gimenes, Tais G. S.; Nowaki, Rodrigo Hiyoshi Dalmazzo; Araújo, Humberto Sampaio de; Salles, Fernando André; Itoh, Youichi; Schaffert, R. E.; Virk, D. S.; Senior, Heidi; Kurniati, Anita; Darmokoesoemo, Handoko; Puspaningsih, Ni Nyoman Tri; Souza, Thaís Inês M.; Costa, Cândido Alves da; Chauca, Milton N. C.

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“…Traditionally, plant breeders used pollination control bags made of paper, but recently synthetic fabrics with greater strength against bad weather, bird damage and wind resistance along with air permeability, lower moisture absorption and prevention of unwanted pollen have been developed (PBS Intl., 2020a,b). Pollination control bags made from nonwoven synthetic fabrics have been successfully trialed and proven to deliver better outputs and increased plant breeding efficacy than controls by Gitz et al (2015), Schaffert et al (2016Schaffert et al ( , 2018Schaffert et al ( , 2019 and Gaddameedi et al (2017) Bonneau et al (2017) in oil palm. Encouraged with the superior performance and re-usability of nonwoven synthetic fabrics for pollination control bags we uniquely extended the use of such fabrics to PCTs in the present study with the objective of improving the efficiency of grass breeding and seed production.…”

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Assessing the effectiveness of nonwoven fabric pollination tents for improved grass breeding

Trammell¹,

Pittman²,

Virk³

et al. 2020

J. Plant Breed. Crop Sci.

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The practices of using isolation and distance in the seed production of open pollinated crops are fundamental concepts to ensure seed purity. We uniquely examined the effectiveness of replacing isolation plots for seed production and grass breeding with different sizes of novel nonwoven synthetic fabric pollination control tents (PCTs). Two fabrics, DWB10 and DWB24, were used along with multiple genotypes of tall fescue at Ardmore, Burneyville and Gene Autry locations in Oklahoma, USA during 2018 and 2019. Treatment effects were consistently significant in both years, but location differences were more pronounced in 2019. Interactions of treatments with locations or genotypes were not predominant. The two tent fabrics, generally, performed equally well for various traits in both years. Tent performance for both fabrics was particularly superior over control for various traits in 2019 (e.g., DWB10 tent showed a 36% increase for seed yield (SY) over the control). Introduction of fans in tents for increasing pollen flow in 2019 was not advantageous as it reduced the SY by 23%. The average temperature within tents was higher with lower average humidity than the control producing a microclimate for good yield and disease free seeds. The final germination (%) of seeds from tents and controls at 21 days was high and not much different with a minimum overall germination of 89% at Burneyville in 2018. There was no evidence of pollen contamination from tetraploid ryegrass pollen in any of the tent fabrics. Bad weather in 2018 affected the sturdiness of tents, but modifications in 2019 corrected all such mishaps. Further improvements in the structures, design and cover have since been made for field exploitation of technology in grass improvement and seed multiplication.

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Assessing the effectiveness of nonwoven fabric pollination tents for improved grass breeding

Trammell¹,

Pittman²,

Virk³

et al. 2020

J. Plant Breed. Crop Sci.

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“…More recently, specially developed nonwoven synthetic materials have been used for PCBs for their greater strength against bird damage and inclement weather conditions of heavy rains and wind, greater air permeability, lower moisture absorption, reusability and pollen proofing (PBS International, 2020a, b, c). Such bags have been shown to have advantage over the controls for greater seed harvest by Gitz et al (2015), Schaffert et al (2016Schaffert et al ( , 2018Schaffert et al ( , 2019 and Gaddameedi et al (2017) in sorgum;Clifton-Brown et al (2018) in sugar beet, wheat, Arabidopsis and Miscanthus; Hayes and Virk (2016) in Miscanthus; Vogel et al (2014) and Adhikari et al (2015) in grasses; and Bonneau et al (2017) in oil palm. Anecdotal evidence suggests that certain nonwoven materials when used as pollination control in very hot climates can result in the plant getting too warm affecting plant health and pollen viability.…”

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Evaluating the pollen proofing of nonwoven synthetic fabric pollination control tents for sugar beet

Townson¹,

Virk²,

Senior³

2020

J. Plant Breed. Crop Sci.

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Three pollination control tents (PCTs) made from novel nonwoven synthetic fabrics with more open pore structure (DWB10, DWB23 and DWB24) were compared with the standard DWB01 fabric for pollen proofing in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) at the research station of Lion Seed Ltd Essex, UK in 2019. PCTs of 63.5 x 63.5 cm footprint accommodated single potted plants. A completely randomised trial with five replications including an open pollinated control was conducted using cytoplasmic male sterile line 1TM37. Analysis was computed for (a) full data and (b) excluding three DWB23 defective tents. Differences among treatments were non-significant for all morphological traits except for number of secondary branches in (a) only. There was thus no micro-climatic difference among treatments for morphological traits of the 1TM37 CMS line. Among the seed related traits, 1000-seed weight and 10-day germination (%) were significant between treatments in (a) but only 1000-seed weight in (b). The mean 1000-seed weight was significantly higher for the open control than all other PCT treatment means which did not differ significantly from zero. Therefore, all four fabrics of PCTs were equally pollen proof in preventing pollen contamination. It is concluded for the first time that mini-tents of these novel nonwoven fabrics, engineered for both larger pores for air permeability and fibre architecture to prevent pollen transmission, adequately eliminated cross-pollination while maintaining ambient environmental conditions and are effective for sugar beet breeding. The PCT technology may be equally usefully deployed in other traditional, commercial and fibre crops for hybrid seed production.

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Increasing seed set and pollen proofing in Brassica juncea and Brassica napus through novel non-woven synthetic pollination control bags

Gupta

Kaur

Banga

et al. 2022

Journal of Crop Improvement

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Current Research in Agriculture and Horticulture Vol. 1

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Assessing the effectiveness of nonwoven fabric pollination tents for improved grass breeding

Assessing the effectiveness of nonwoven fabric pollination tents for improved grass breeding

Evaluating the pollen proofing of nonwoven synthetic fabric pollination control tents for sugar beet

Increasing seed set and pollen proofing in Brassica juncea and Brassica napus through novel non-woven synthetic pollination control bags

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