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Population Breeding Techniques in Sorghum

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Title Population Breeding Techniques in Sorghum
 
Creator Nath, B
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Plant breeders have been successful In exploltlng
available variability in crop specles by dlrect
selection among landraces and by the use of
conventional methods of pedigree and backcross
breeding in the development of superlor genotypes.
Effective use of population breedlng
methods began some 30 years ago wlth the
increased knowledge of quantltatlve genetlc
theory and reallzatlon of the fact that conventional
breeding methods produce populations w~th a
relatively small gene pool, favor the accumulat~on
linkage blocks due to rapld fixation of genotyes,
and limit recombinatlon optlons because of P the lack of intermatlng. Population brdedlng techniques
involving recurrent selection have greater
potential for mob~lizing genetic varlatlon and
provide increased opportunities for recomblnatlon
and selectlon.
 
Date 1982
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4079/1/CP_81.pdf
Nath, B (1982) Population Breeding Techniques in Sorghum. In: Sorghum In the Eighties Proceedings of the lnternational Syrnposlum on Sorghum, 2-7 November 1981, Patancheru. A P lndla.