Cimatli Breeding

Just thought I would show some of my winter crossing progress. I work mostly with cultivated potato (S. tuberosum), but I have also been working on Cimatli. Since there is a lot of information out there on cultivated potato I thought it would be nice to give a glimpse of our work on Cimatli. I do a lot of research on other wild species as well, especially the 1EBN species.


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The Cimatli crossing block at Michigan State University next to various 1EBN species on the back end of the bench


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Advanced breeding lines along with parental wild species


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Typical S. ehrenbergii flowers on an advanced breeding line


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Ripening fruit on a species introgression. The plant is a S. jamesii x S. bulbocastanum hybrid and the pollen parent is an advanced Cimatli breeding line


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Flowers on the S. jamesii x S. bulbocastanum hybrid. These are surprisingly very fragrant. You can smell them from 10 feet away.


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S. lesteri blooming, I am hoping to introgress this into the Cimatli breeding population for the trichomes.

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Thanks for sharing the photos. I learned something new.