Jinghua 1 wheat by anther culture
Trigo Jinghua 1 por cultivo de anteras
- Date
- 1974 · confidence medium
- Place
- Beijing, China
- Credited to
- Hu Han and the Institute of Genetics (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
First winter wheat variety obtained by anther culture, released in northern China in the mid-1970s. It was one of the first commercial cultivars in the world created with in vitro culture biotechnology.
The variety's registration date varies between 1971 and 1975 depending on the source; 1974 is used, from the Chinese literature on Hu Han's programme.
What it led to
- Chinese haploid breeding programmes in rice, wheat and rapeseed
- thousands of hectares of doubled-haploid varieties
- spread of androgenesis to laboratories in other countries