pitahayas: introduction, agrotechniques and breeding pitahayas... · yellow pitahaya . others...
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Pitahayas: introduction, agrotechniques and breeding
The French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of DrylandsThe J. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research
Ben-Gurion University of the [email protected]
Noemi Tel-Zur
May 8
VIIth International Cactus Congress. Agadir - Morocco
October 19, 2010
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Geographic distributionHylocereus species
Mexico
Costa Rica
Panama
Colombia
Venezuela
Etc.
Species native to Central and South America
Known as Pitahayas, Vine cacti, Dragon fruits
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Plant characteristics
Triangular stemFruit with scales (few of them with spiny peel)
Wax in few species
Spine shape
Climbing plants, roots can be detached from soil
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Nocturnal flowers
Open only one night – receptive 1 day
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Bat feeding on nectar and pollinating
Not in Israel!!
Pollination by bees
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Genetic variability
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Why Pitahayas as a fruit crop?1. Water use efficiency (WUE) - one order of magnitude higher
than other crops (CAM plants)
2. Many uses: food (exotic and beautiful fruits), industrial,
ornamental products and more
3. Exotic fruit in world markets – high value crop
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Agrotechniques
1- Manual pollination due to self-incompatibilityand lack of natural pollinators
2- Acclimation to arid and semi-arid conditions3- Trellising climbing plants4- Mechanization for removing spiny peel from
yellow pitahaya
Others issues to solve: Irrigation, fertilization, pruning, short shelf-live
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Hand-cross pollination
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Orchard establishment:
1- Net
2- Trellis
Shade net density - depends on local radiation intensity
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Heat damage, 90% yield reduction
Chilling injury 4-5 °C
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Nematode damageExcellent start, good yield and fruit size.
Destroyed the plants in years 4 & 5.
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Possible problems with the de-spining machine
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Red pitahaya orchard: 35 ton/ha
Yellow pitahaya orchard: 15 ton/ha
not profitable
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First introductions
Hylocereus megalanthus: “yellow pitahaya” delicious but spiny peel, fruit inferior in size and yield, ripens in winter
Hylocereus megalanthus
Hylocereus spp.: “red pitahaya” large and attractive fruit but lack taste, ripens in summer
H. monacanthus
H. undatus
H. megalanthus
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Breeding program
• Hylocereus spp.: “red pitahaya” - diploid species
• H. megalanthus: “yellow pitahaya” - tetraploid
F1
Goals : taste, size, yield, spineless, self-compatible,
prolonged shelf-life
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Breeding and selection
Grow out progeny
Select parents
Recombine parents Evaluate progeny
Long and arduous process
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Large variability in almost every aspect!
Improved “summer” hybrids
Red pitahaya hybrids - one day in the lab!
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Red-yellow pitahaya hybrids (F1)Red pitahaya Yellow pitahaya
Female parent Male parent
12-31 12-16
Excellent in taste but spiny peel and low yields – “Autumn” cultivars
F1 = triploid
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New orchards with F1 hybrids
500-1,000 m3 water/ha/year(about 10,000 m3 water/ha/year for other fruit crops)
Yields: 25-35 ton/ha
“Autumn” cultivars
triploids
“Summer” cultivars
diploids
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Fruit morphology in hybrids
Second generation of F2 hybrids
Preliminary evaluationBC-07
320 g (mean)
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Other breeding projects
1. “in situ” polyploid induction
2. Production of homozygous Haploid-DH lines
3. Embryo rescue following interspecific-interploidy crosses
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“in situ” polyploid induction
a- Vegetative lateral bud
b- Germinating seed
Treatments:
The goal : obtain artificial red and yellow
polyploid plants
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Control
Double
Red pitahaya 2n 4n1- Bigger flower buds
2- Breaks self-incompatibility system
3- About 25% decrease in fruit weight!!!
Yellow pitahaya 4n 8n
1- Very small fruits – lacking commercial value
Donor - 4n
Double - 8n
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Production of homozygous Haploid-DH lines
Technique
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This approach allows the production of
haploid plants.
Homozygous lines from heterozygous donors
could be obtained through a single-step
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Anther culture
Callus formation Embryoids formation
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Ovule culture
1- Ovule in culture 2- Embryoid development
3- Callus formation 4- Plant regeneration
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Abnormal plants - up to 5%
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Hardening-off
A B
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Chromosome counts and FACS
Num
ber o
f ev
ents
Relative nuclear DNA - content
A B
C D
Num
ber o
f ev
ents
Relative nuclear DNA - content
A B
C D
Haploid plant with half number of
chromosomes / total DNA per cell
Donor plants
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We obtained haploid plants from anther
and ovule culture in red and yellow
pitahayas
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Few samples…..
More than 2,000 plants for evaluation
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Yellow pitahaya “haploid” plants start to bloom
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Plated 2 weeks 4 weeks
6 weeks6 weeks6 weeks
6 weeks 8 weeks 10 weeks
Embryo rescue
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2 weeks 3 weeks 4 weeks
6 weeks 6 weeks 8 weeks
10 weeks Hardening-off 2 month
Embryo rescue
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This unique plant material offers us an opportunity
to identify elite lines in terms of yield, fruit quality,
resistance to disease, and drought tolerance,
enhances our potential to improve breeding efficiency
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Perspectives
QTL’s to map genome/ secondary metabolites
Thousands of plant for selection.
Improved cultivars for GROWERS?
Elucidating genetic relationships among vine cactus species
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Development of new additional products
• Natural food colors
• Ornamental
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Hylocerenin Tolerant to Pasteurization
Ice Cream
Opuntia Red Pitahaya
Strawberry
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Ornamental uses
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Midnight
Next morning 6 am
withered
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In summary, there is a wealth of genetic
variability in vine cacti waiting for us in the wild.
These plants have inherent High Water Use
Efficiency (WUE) with tolerance to other stresses
These plants in addition to providing food and
feed, have industrial and medicinal uses
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Acknowledgements
Israel-BGU A. CisnerosDr. M. DudaiDr. B. SchneiderDr. R. GarciaProf. Y. MizrahiProf. G. Grafi
Israel-ARO, Gilat Center Dr. E. Raveh
Cornel University - USAProf. J. Doyle
Funding agencies
Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund- BARD
BGU internal found
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Thanks