Sugar beet and wild crop relatives for plant breeding
Wild relatives of cultivated crops are a necessary ressource for breeding of disease-resistant and tolerant plants. We use wild relatives of cultivated beets (sugar beet, fodder beet, garden beet and chard) to investigate beet genome evolution and the beet's gene pool.
Below, we display several wild beet species that we have available in the lab.
group of Beta vulgaris cultivars © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Beta vulgaris swiss chard (section Beta) © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Beta vulgaris adanensis (section Beta) © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Beta vulgaris cicla (section Beta) © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Beta maritima trojana (section Beta) © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Beta maritima variation (section Beta) © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Beta macrocarpa (section Beta) © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Beta patula (section Beta) © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Beta corolliflora (section Corollineae) © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Beta lomatogona (section Corollineae) © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Beta trigyna (section Corollineae) © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Beta nana (section Nanae) © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Patellifolia procumbens, formerly Beta procumbens © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Patellifolia webbiana, formerly Beta webbiana © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Patellifolia patellaris, formerly Beta patellaris © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Beta wild relatives © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
Beet wild relatives © Molbio, Thomas Schmidt
