Mass Selection-Definition

Mass Selection-Definition

    • In mass selection, seeds are collected from a large number of phenotypically similar plants available in 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, grain colour, grain size, tillering ability, disease resistance etc. are considered.
       

    • Mass selection increases frequencies of desirable genes. This type of selection method of plant breeding can be carried out multiple times as mass selected variety may contain considerable genetic variation. But, new genetic variability is not created; only the present one is used just to improve base population performance
       

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