Principles of Plant Breeding (2+1)

Methods of breeding autogamous crops

• The following are the methods of breeding autogamous plants.

  1. Introduction
  2. Selection
  a) Pure line selection
  b) Mass selection
  3. Hybridization and selection
  i) Inter varietal
  a) Pedigree Method
  b) Bulk Method.
  c) Single Seed Descent Method.
  d) Modified Bulk Method
  e) Mass - Pedigree Method.
  ii) Interspecific hybridization
  4. Back cross method
  5. Multiline varieties
  6. Population approach
  7. Hybrids.
  8. Mutation breeding
  9. Polyploidy breeding
  10. Innovative techniques