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Qualitative and quantitative characters (qualitative and quantitative characters in crops and their inheritance)
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Biometrical techniques in plant breeding (assessment of variability, aids to selection, choice of parents, crossing techniques, genotype-by- environment interactions)
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Selection in self-pollinated crops (progeny test, pureline theory, origin of variation, genetic advance, genetic gain)
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Hybridization techniques and its consequences (objectives, types, program, procedures, consequences)
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Genetic composition of cross-pollinated populations (Hardy-Weinberg law, equilibrium, mating systems)
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Breeding methods in self-pollinated crops (Mass, Pure line, Pedigree, Bulk, Backcross, etc)
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Pureline selection

  • Pureline selection has been the most commonly used method of improvement of self-pollinated crops.
  • Almost all the present-day varieties of self-pollinated crops are pure lines.
  • Pureline selection has several applications in improvement of self-pollinated crops. It is used to improve.
  1. Local varieties
  2. Old pureline varieties and
  3. Introduced varieties

 

Characters of purelines

  1. All the plants within a pureline have the same genotype
  2. The variation within a pureline is environmental and non-heritable
  3. Purelines are stable
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