About Lesson
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.
- Local varieties
- Old pureline varieties and
- Introduced varieties
Characters of purelines
- All the plants within a pureline have the same genotype
- The variation within a pureline is environmental and non-heritable
- Purelines are stable