This article throws light upon the five important experimental designs for plant breeding programmes. The designs are: 1. Simple Experimental Designs 2. Augmented Design-I 3. Completely Randomized Design 4. Randomized Complete Block Design 5. Split Plot Design. 1. Simple Experimental Designs: The difference among experimental plots treated alike is called experimental error. This error is the main basis for deciding [...]
Justifications for the development and use of MAS in plant breeding fall into four broad areas that are relevant to almost all target crops. These are: a. Traits that are difficult to manage through conventional phenotypic selection because they are expensive or time consuming to measure, or have low penetrance or complex inheritance. b. Traits whose selection depends on specific [...]
There are three basic or natural systems of pollination which determine the nature of breeding system of a plant: A. Natural self-pollination; B. Natural crosses pollination; C. Occasional cross pollination. A. Self-Pollinated Crops: Self-pollination is the process of transfer of pollen grains from the anther of a flower to the stigma of the same flower. In the self-pollinated crop plants [...]