Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology
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Item Alcides Carvalho and the selection of Catuaí cultivar: interpreting the past and drawing lessons for the future(Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology, 2018) Andrade, Vinícius Teixeira; Guerreiro Filho, Oliveiro; Ramalho, Magno Antônio PattoThe coffee cultivar Catuaí is among the most successful cultivars in Brazilian agriculture; it has been on the market for more than 40 years. It was obtained by Dr. Alcides Carvalho, a researcher of the Instituto Agronômico de Campinas (IAC), from the cross between ‘Caturra’ and ‘Mundo Novo’ carried out in 1949 for the purpose of joining plant vigor with small plant size. Our aim was to report the activities that culminated in the recommendation of 16 lines of ‘Catuaí’, consisting of eight lines with red fruit and eight with yellow fruit, analyzing the data of several experiments. The decision regarding what to recommend was made in the F1:2 generation, based on two harvests. It became clear that Dr. Alcides should be taken as an example by all breeders, above all in his persistence, scientific rigor, and belief that farmers can be an important ally of breeders.Item Coffea arabica clones resistant to coffee leaf miner(Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology, 2016-03) Guerreiro Filho, Oliveiro; Mendonça, Alex Paulo; Nonato, Juliana Vieira Almeida; Andrade, Vinícius Teixeira; Fatobene, Bárbhara Joana dos Reis; Braghini, Masako Toma; Prela-Pantano, AngelicaBrazilian arabica coffee production is based on a set of highly productive cultivars sexually propagated. All of them are susceptible to coffee leaf miner, Leucoptera coffeella, and most of them are also susceptible to coffee leaf rust, Hemileia vastatrix. Aiming to reduce the selection process of cultivars with multiple resistances to both biotic constraints, the Coffea arabica clones 760, 1059, 1064 and 1215 were evaluated under field conditions. The mean yield of four C. arabica clones was not statistically different from the experimental controls; however, the yield of clone 1059 was 21% higher than the control cultivar Obatã IAC 1669-20. Leaf miner resistance level in all the evaluated clones remained the same as the mother plant’s. However, the same did not occur for resistance to H. vastatrix, due to the emergence of new pathogen races. In summary, it is potentially feasible the adoption of clone 1059 as a new clonal cultivar resistant to coffee leaf miner.