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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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Breeding for resistance

  • Similar as for any other traits, but have special position due to:

➢Reaction can be assayed only diseasing the plants

➢Resistance may be elusive i.e. it may breakdown

 

Selection for disease resistance

  1. Sources of resistance

➢ commercial cultivars,

➢ Germplasm collection screen

➢ Relative/related species through interspecific hybridization

➢ Mutation-spontaneous or induced

 

  1. Screening technique for resistance

➢ by exposure to the disease pathogen under natural or artificial induced condition

 

  1. Breeding techniques:
  • The resistance gene must be transferred to an adapted cultivar by one of following ways

➢Backcross breeding method

➢Wide crosses

➢Recurrent selection

➢Genetic engineering

 

  1. Progeny testing of resistant plants to verify the inherent nature of resistance
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