Plant breeding is the science and practice of developing improved crop cultivars by deliberately altering their genetic makeup to enhance traits of agronomic and economic value. It combines genetics, statistics, physiology, and pathology to select and recombine desirable characteristics such as higher yield, improve…
Plant breeding is the science and practice of developing improved crop cultivars by deliberately altering their genetic makeup to enhance traits of agronomic and economic value. It combines genetics, statistics, physiology, and pathology to select and recombine desirable characteristics such as higher yield, improved quality, resistance to pests and diseases, and tolerance of drought, heat, salinity, and other stresses. Methods range from selection and conventional hybridisation through quantitative-genetic evaluation of genotype-by-environment interaction and yield stability to molecular and genomic tools including marker-assisted selection and genomic prediction, which accelerate the identification and combination of favourable alleles. Concepts of heritability, selection indices, and the partitioning of genetic and environmental variance underpin the efficiency of breeding programmes, while diverse germplasm provides the variation on which selection acts. Research published in this area by the journal addresses these themes, including scientific and technological interventions for precision in plant genetics and breeding, selection indices for heat tolerance and their correlation with yield in chickpea, evaluation of sugar-beet genotypes under drought stress, genotype-by-environment interaction and yield-stability analysis of chickpea across environments, screening sorghum genotypes for Striga resistance, and the question of missing heritability in genomic studies. These contributions span conventional and genomic breeding approaches to yield improvement and stress tolerance, illustrating how genetic improvement is pursued to raise crop performance across variable environments.
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