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    This document provides information about the Dahlia plant including its native origins, uses, species, cytogenetics, breeding objectives and methods, important hybrids and varieties. It discusses that Dahlias are popular flowering bulbs native to Mexico and Central America. There are over 25 species of Dahlias that are classified into 10 groups based on flower morphology. The document outlines breeding objectives such as developing new colors, forms, and disease resistant varieties. It also describes hybridization and mutation breeding methods used to create new Dahlia varieties.

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    This document provides information about the Dahlia plant including its native origins, uses, species, cytogenetics, breeding objectives and methods, important hybrids and varieties. It discusses that Dahlias are popular flowering bulbs native to Mexico and Central America. There are over 25 species of Dahlias that are classified into 10 groups based on flower morphology. The document outlines breeding objectives such as developing new colors, forms, and disease resistant varieties. It also describes hybridization and mutation breeding methods used to create new Dahlia varieties.

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    This document provides information about the Dahlia plant including its native origins, uses, species, cytogenetics, breeding objectives and methods, important hybrids and varieties. It discusses that Dahlias are popular flowering bulbs native to Mexico and Central America. There are over 25 species of Dahlias that are classified into 10 groups based on flower morphology. The document outlines breeding objectives such as developing new colors, forms, and disease resistant varieties. It also describes hybridization and mutation breeding methods used to create new Dahlia varieties.

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    Some key takeaways are that Dahlias are popular flowering plants native to Mexico and Central America, and are used extensively for garden displays and decoration. They come in a variety of species, flower structures and colors.

    Some species described include Dahlia coccinea, Dahlia pinnata, Dahlia imperialis (also known as tree dahlia), Dahlia merckii, Dahlia tenuis, Dahlia australis, and Dahlia macdougallii.

    Dahlias are classified according to their flower structure into single-flowering, anemone-flowering, collerette, water lily, and decorative types which have different floral characteristics and heights suitable for different purposes.

    Welcome!

    Dahlia
    S.N.: Dahlia sp.
    Family: Asteraceae
    Native: Mexico & Central America
    Chromosome no.: n =8
    Introduction and Uses:

    •The Dahlias are one of the most important and popular


    flowering bulbs.

    •Dahlias are extensively used for exhibition, garden display


    and decoration.

    •It can be grown in beds, borders or even in mixed borders


    along with other plants.
    SPECIES

     Dahlia coccinea
     Dahlia pinnata
     Dahlia imperialis
     Dahlia merckii
     Dahlia tenuis
     Dahlia australis
     Dahlia macdougallii
    Dahlia coccinea
    D pinnata
    •It is a tetraploid (n=32) species and single flowered.
    •Growth habit is quite similar to that of D coccinea.
    D imperialis
    •It is a diploid (n=16) species.
    •Plants are 3 to 6 meter tall with woody stems.
    •Flowers are single, large, funnel shaped and lilac in colour.
    •Also known as TREE DAHLIA.
    D merckii:
    •D merckii (n= 28)
    • This species possesses alternate pinnules on the rachilla of its
    compound leaves and hollow leaf petioles.
    •Flowers are small and lilac in colour.
    D australis:
    • This species has variable population with different
    chromosome numbers of n=16 and n=32.

    D australis
    D tenuis
    •Plants of this species are about 0.4 to 2.0 meter tall.
    •Pinnae arrangement on rachilla is opposite.
    •Flowers are small with yellow ray florets.
    •Chromosome number is n=16.
    D macdougallii:
    •This species is epiphytic perennial.
    •Plants are up to 10 meters in height.
    •Arrangement of pinnae on rachiIIa is opposite.
    •It is the only climbing species in the genus.
    According to National Dahlia Society of England:
    Varietal classification is as follows:-

    1.Single-flowering Dahlia:
    •One single row of florets, central group of disc florets.
    Suitable for bedding purposes.
    •The height is 40-60 cm.
    Eg: Bambino, Little Dorrit, Pinnochio and Yellow Hammer.
    2.Anemone-flowering:
    •Fully double, one or more rings of florets, central group of
    flower florets.
    •Good for flower arrangement & the height is about 60-90 cm.
    •eg. Comet, Guinea and Scarlet Comet.
    3.Collerette :
    •One outer ring of flat florets, an inner ring of collar florets
    and central group of disc florets.
    •The height is 75-120 cm. Good for flower arrangement.
    Eg. Choh, Sincerity and Thais.
    4.Water Lily Dahlia:
    •Fully double, flattened shape, florets are flat with slightly curved
    margins.
    • The height is up to 120 cm.
    •Became very popular as cut flowers.
    Eg: Porcelain, Jescat Lyn, Christopher Taylor, Ruthei .
    5. Decorative Dahlias:
    •Fully double, flat florets are broad and blunt-ended with wide range of
    forces.
    •The height is about 150 cm.
    (Note: This group is further divided into five groups according to their size)
    6. Ball Dahlias:
    •Fully double, ball shaped (often flat), florets are blunt or round ended.
    •The height is about 120 cm.
    •Balls are subdivided into Small Ball and Miniature Ball Dahlias.
    Eg. Alltamy Cherry, Risca Miner are small ball dahlias and Connoisseurs
    Choice, Nettie, Rathsay Superb and Wootton Cupid are miniature Ball
    Dahlias.
    7.Pompon Dahlias:

    •Fully double, globe shaped, involute florets are blunt or round ended.

    •The height 80-120 cm.

    • Extremely popular for flower arrangement and have the Longest Vase Life
    among all the Dahlias.

    Eg. Diura Gregary, Narien, Hallmark.


    8.Cactus Dahlias:
    •Fully double, involute florets are narrow and painted.
    •The height is about 150 cm.
    Note: Further divided into five sub-groups.
    1. Giant Cactus
    2. Large cactus
    3. Medium cactus
    4. Small cactus
    5. Miniature cactus
    9.Peony flowering Dahlias:

    •Fully double, florets are round ended.


    •The height is 100 cm.
    •Not much popular.
    Eg. Bishop of Llandaff and Fascination
    8.Mignon Dahlias:

    •Small flowers (6-10 cm).


    •Very suitable for pots and containers.
    •The height is about 50 cm.
    10.Top mix Dahlias:
    •Small flowers (3-5 cm).
    •Very suitable for pots and containers.
    •The height is about 35 cm.
    Cytogenetics

     The chromosome number of different species of dahlia


    differ.
     The cultivated dahlia are tetraploid n= 32
     Chromosomal abnormalities like
    laggards,micronuclei,secondary assosiation leading to
    formation of multivalents to extent of octavalents were
    recorded.
     Gupta et al (1972)reported two different base numbers
    viz.x=8 and x=18 in dahlia.
     All dahlias are not selfincompatible and more than 25%
    cultivers are self- incompatible.
    Breeding objectives

     To breed for extremely beautiful small flowered decorative


    dahlias(not more than 15 cm in diam.) with formal globular form or
    informal type with curly or feathery florets.
     To evolve new varieties in small flowered pompon dahlias withn
    perfect spheres,not exceeding 5cm in diameter and increased post
    harvest life.
     To create exhibition specimen in colarette dahlias of perfect round.
     To develop dwarf beddding dahlias with attractive colour ranges
    not exceeding 60cm in height.
     To develop attractive liliput dahlias for pot culture and bordering
    flower beds.
     To breed for new and intriguing forms of dahlia.
     To create new colour in dahlia.Ex: true blue.
     To evolve disese resistant varieties(PM,F.wilt,smut & bacteruial
    wilt.
    Breeding methods

     collection., maintenance and assessment of


    germplasm.
     Hybridization
     Mutation breeding
     Spontanious mutation
    Hybridization
     Done withn selection of parent cultivers.
     The bicolour charecteristics of dahlia are dominant
    factor.
     If two different monochrome coloyredcultivars are
    crossed there may be some bicoloured offsprings.
     After crossing the progeny is tobe analysed by progeny
    test and number of superior parents are identified.
     Many dahlias are derived from open pollinated
    seedling are :
     Bhikkus vivek from ucchu,
     Jayanti from cheerio,
     Swami gouriswarananda from ketu.
    Hybrides
    1. Baldelstream : Sel. No.97.1357* Dapalipi
     Developed in netherland in 1997.
     Double pink colour ray floret and yellow colour disc
    flower.
     Vigorous, upright flower diameter 7.6cm
    2. Nearest blue : Deep lilac in colour toning to blue.
     Bikkus mother
     Bikkus vivek
     Jyotsna
     Lord buddha
     Jayanti
     Basudev
     Chitchor
     Manjushri
     Disco
     Swami vinayananda
    Mutation breeding
     Some plants develop new colour by sopntanious
    muttion which is known as bud sports.
     These sports may be due to point mutations,gain or
    loss of chromosomes.
     These sports are used by breeder to get a new variety.
     Few varieties in india:
     Kenya blue,kenya white from sport of kenya
     Manjushri from Donald van de mark
     Prabodh from Swamiji
     Through induced mutation by 2kR Gamma irradiation:
     Pride of sindri
     Bichitra
     Jyoti
     Netaji
     Black beauty
     Vivekananda
     Happiness ,varieties are evolved in india
    Some Important varieties of Dahlias:

    1. Swami Vinayananda
    2. Swami Madhavananda
    3. Swami Lokeswarananda
    4. Yellow Monarch
    5. Bhikkus Mother
    6. Bhikkus vivek
    7. Lord Budha
    8. Manjushree
    9. Basudev

    Heyyy!! You.
    I’m Dahlia.
    #Presented by,
    Mahananda
    Jr. M.Sc (FLA)
    Dept of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture)
    College of Horticulture, Bengaluru

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