Breeding of Vegetable, Spice and Tuber crops (2+1)

Mass selection-Definition

Mass selection

Definition

• In mass selection, seeds are collected from a large number of phenotypically similar plants available in a population and are bulked to grow next generation. In the simplest manner it is the creation of mixture of different lines.
• While selection, easily observable characters like plant height, leaf phenotype, branching habit, fruit colour, fruit size and number of fruits/plant etc., should be observed and best performing plants should be selected.