Analytical Synthetic Breeding for Potato
Another approach described as ‘analytical synthetic breeding scheme’ was proposed by Wenzel et al. (1979). This takes advantage of protoplast fusion and plant regeneration to bring together different genotypes into a completely heterozygous tetraploid potato. In this approach, dihaploids are used again for the production of monoploids, before the tetraploid is resynthesized. The breeder can evaluate and select the genomes present in monoploids. The selected monoploids are then used for resynthesise of tetraploids through protoplast fusion and regeneration as follows: (monoploid1 + monoploid2) + (monoploid3 + monoploid4). The selection of best somatic hybrids may be feasible on the basis of their growth rate in cell cultures.


