《Advances in DUS Test Technique for Coconut》.pdfVIP

Agricultural Science Technology, 2014, 15 9 : 1466-1470 Copyright 訫 2014, lnformation lnstitute of HAAS. All rights reserved Molecular Biology and Tissue Culture Advances in DUS Test Technique for Coconut Ling GAO, Li XU, Difa LlU, Rulian ZHANG 鄢 Danzhou DUS Test Station for the Protection of New Variety of Plants, Ministry of Agriculture/Tropical Crops Genetic Resources lnstitute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Danzhou 571737, China Abstract As great progress has been made in the field of protection of new plant specification indicated the general varieties, more attention is paid to the standardization of DUS Distinctness, Unifor- principles and special application in mity, and Stability test procedure. For further studies of tropical plants as their im- the DUS testing, and some of them portance in agriculture and germplasm, protection of coconut becomes more signifi- should be used in conjunction with de- cant and thus DUS test technique of coconut is needed. ln this essay, we analyzed the status quo of the DUS test guidelines by lnternational Union for the Protection scription and classification of charac- of New Varieties of Plants UPOV proj.3 and national DUS test guidelines in Chi- teristics in the UPOV guidelines for na, and provided some suggestions or promotions for improving the guidelines of DUS testing. Therefore, testing guide- DUS test in coconut. lines of coconut should accord to the Key words Testing technique; DUS test; Coconut module, and the main contents were listed as follows: 1 subject of these test guide- oconuts are found throughout Station located in tropic area of China. lines; C the tropic and sub tropic area. Now, the UPOV test guidelines of co- 2 literature; Coconut palms are grown in conut are promoted as