2012 - Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
2012 - Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
2012 - Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
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16 New <strong>Florida</strong> Parent C<strong>and</strong>idates<br />
Parents Selected or Breed in <strong>Florida</strong><br />
Year C<strong>and</strong>idates Entered Parents Released Cultivars being Shoot-tip Grafted*<br />
<strong>2012</strong> 72 61 138<br />
2011 72 51 119<br />
2010 34 48 107<br />
2009 24 27 99<br />
2008 16 14 111<br />
*The number includes some DPI selections also being shoot-tip grafted to remove tristeza virus. (not considered new entries)<br />
Entries by<br />
Agency<br />
<strong>2012</strong> 2011<br />
IFAS CREC 30 32<br />
IFAS Gainesville 4 10<br />
USDA 24 0<br />
Bureau/Participant 3 2<br />
Private/ Proprietary 11 28<br />
138 different cultivars are<br />
currently being shoot-tip<br />
grafted<br />
Parent Trees<br />
Parent trees are unique germplasm belonging to a nurseryman, grower, or breeder, or on property that the<br />
owner has given written permission to a nurseryman <strong>and</strong> the department for access for observation, testing,<br />
<strong>and</strong> shoot-tip grafting. Parent trees are not used as a source <strong>of</strong> budwood for nursery trees; they only supply<br />
the initial material that is shoot-tip grafted to become a registered clonal selection.<br />
The process <strong>of</strong> selection <strong>of</strong> superior budlines helped the citrus industry exp<strong>and</strong> with new plantings <strong>of</strong> uniform<br />
fruit <strong>and</strong> uniform crops <strong>of</strong> high yield <strong>and</strong> quality. A simplification <strong>of</strong> the selection process is basically the<br />
“elimination <strong>of</strong> undesirable characteristics <strong>and</strong> increasing the desirable characteristics” <strong>of</strong> a variety. Many <strong>of</strong><br />
the Valencias, grown before the budwood program helped st<strong>and</strong>ardize the variety, were a hodge-podge <strong>of</strong><br />
many different named types <strong>and</strong> seedling selections. A high percentage <strong>of</strong> these late varieties as a group had<br />
a tendency towards bud-mutations along with carrying viruses <strong>and</strong> not yielding the volume <strong>of</strong> fruit that was<br />
possible. Other commercial varieties likewise were improved through the selection <strong>of</strong> st<strong>and</strong>ardized true-totype<br />
varieties <strong>and</strong> the subsequent improvement in yields <strong>and</strong> fruit quality. Bud improvement through<br />
selection, along with pathogen removal gave the grower a double bang for their buck, exponentially<br />
increasing production <strong>and</strong> tree survivability.<br />
16 Annual Report <strong>2012</strong> (FY 2011-<strong>2012</strong>) Bureau <strong>of</strong> Citrus Budwood Registration
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