On August 9, 2024, the Department of Science and Technology of Can Tho City organized a city-level acceptance council for the project “Application of Biotechnology to Create High-Yielding and Good-Quality Varieties of Cucumbers, Bitter Melons, and String Beans for Can Tho City.” The project is led by Dr. Nguyễn Trọng Phước, with the High Technology Agricultural Research Institute of the Mekong Delta as the main agency.
The project has been conducted from December 2021 to August 2024, with the following objectives: to perfect the technological process for creating three varieties: cucumber, bitter melon, and string bean with high yield and good quality; to develop production processes for three types of parent seeds with disease resistance or high pest pressure tolerance that meet market demands; and to establish cultivation models for each variety in Can Tho City.
The project implemented seven contents: (1) Exploiting initial materials and proceeding with hybridization for breeding work; (2) Innovating the screening process for genetic materials resistant to fungal and bacterial diseases in important vegetable crops such as bitter melon, cucumber, and string beans using advanced biotechnological techniques; (3) Innovating the genetic screening process using molecular markers (SSR-DNA markers) in breeding; (4) Testing the genetic stability of hybrid pairs and the adaptability of varieties in various ecological regions; (5) Developing production and cultivation processes for new crop varieties; (6) Implementing pilot production models for the three crops inherited and improved from the project, applying innovative cultivation and post-harvest processing technologies; (7) Conducting workshops and training.
The project achieved the following products: (1) 30 F1 hybrid pairs for cucumber, bitter melon, and string beans; (2) A technological process for creating three varieties of cucumber, bitter melon, and string beans with high yield and good quality; (3) A production process for three types of seeds with disease resistance or high pest pressure tolerance that meet market demands; (4) Three cultivation models for each variety of cucumber, bitter melon, and string beans; (5) Four DNA sequences of cucumber, bitter melon, and string beans registered in the international gene bank (NCBI); (6) 3 kg of seeds for each type of cucumber, bitter melon, and string beans; (7) Eight scientific papers, including three published in international journals.
The acceptance council highly appreciated the workload and the results achieved by the project; at the same time, it requested the project’s steering committee to complete the summary report according to the council’s feedback. The council agreed to accept the project results.
Đăng ngày: 24/09/2024