This document summarizes various breeding methods for vegetable crops, including plant introduction, selection methods for asexually and sexually propagated crops, line breeding, and hybridization. Selection methods like pure line selection, mass selection, and hybridization have been used to develop many vegetable cultivars like tomato, brinjal, pea, cabbage, and watermelon. Hybridization techniques include developing inbred lines, evaluating their combining ability, and producing F1 hybrid seeds through manual pollination or using male sterility.

1. An
Presentation
On
Breeding methods for vegetables
by: Atma RamMeena
Ph.D SCHOLAR
College of agriculture, Bikaner

2.  PLANT INTRODUCTION
 SELECTION-
(a) ASEXUALLYPROPOGATED
Clonal selection
(b) SELF POLLINATED CROPS-
Pure line selection
Single plant selection
PLANTS
(c) CROSS POLLINATED CROPS-
Mass selection
 Line breeding

4. It is an important method for improvement of
cropvegetable crops particularly of introduced like
potato , tomato , capsicum , etc.
The introduction may constitute elite cultivar, true
breeding
materials.
material, heterozygous and heterogeneous

5.  E.g.-
 CROP
 TOMATO
 BRINJAL
 PEA
 WATERMELON
 CUCUMBER
 CABBAGE
CULTIVAR
sioux , marglobe
black beauty
arkel, bonnvilla
sugarbaby
, roma
japanese long green
snowball, D-96

6. In asexually propagated vegetable crops, several
cultivars have been developed by clonal selection.
A clone is referred to a group of plant produced
from single plant through asexual propagation.
For e.g.- in potato, kufri red is a clonal selection
from a cultivar Darjeeling red round and kufri safed
from cultivar phulwa.
Besides these, a number of cultivars of potato .
pointed gourd , sweet - potato, garlic etc have been
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developed by clonal selection.
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7. It is generally employed in self pollinated crop. In
this method it is necessary That the initial
population is highly heterozygous with superior
genes of Desired character . this procedure help in
stabilizing the heterozygous superior Genotypes
rather than making further improvement.
Eg. - Tomato- co-1, co-2, pant -3
Okra- Pusa makhmali, Gujarat bhindi-1

8. It is a selection of chance variants , off type or superior
types from the source material constituted of mixed
homozygous population.
Single plant selection from introduced materials is
important in developing many cultivars of different
crop in India like tomato, brinjal, chilli, pea,
Frenchbean , okra etc .
Eg- crop cultivar
Tomato
Cauliflower
Bitter gourd
Bottle gourd
Improved merruti, HS-110
Pusa drum head, hisar-1
pusa do mousmi
PSPL, PSPR

9. In cross pollinated vegetable crops systematic selection
followed by controlled pollination always improve the
population termed as population improvement.
This is done by different selection method like mass
selection , progeny testing and line breeding, family
breeding, mass pedigree selection,
recurrent selection, etc.

10. In this method of selection , the best individual plant
is selected from the Base population on the basis of
phenotype
pollination
generation.
, their seeds are produced by open
and then composited to raise the next
After repeated selection in this way,
newthe improved population can be treated as a
cultivar.
e.g.- most of the cultivars of onion and
and
few
palak.cultivars of radish, cauliflower, carrot

11. MASS-PEDIGREE METHOD
Mass pedigree method is useful for cabbage, cauliflower,
radish,and turnip showing high degree of self incompatibility.In
this method selected progenies are allowed to random mating in
isolation to develop new base population.It is subjected to 3-4
cycles of selection,after which it is regarded as a new cultivar.

12. In line breeding progeny of the selected plants from the base
population is raised by open pollination and grown
separately in rows for evolution. After several cycles of
selection,on the basis of progeny test,the almost similar
progeny lines are composited and treated as a new cultivar.
Eg.cauliflower,cabbage,radish,onion and carrot.

13. Family breeding is almost similar to line breeding but in
this method of population improvement,progenies are
tested more elaborately in more number of generations.
4 to 6 progeny families are composited to develop a
new synthetic variety.

14. Recurrent selection is a population improvement scheme designed
to concentrate favourable genes scattered among number of
individual in the base population.It is based on selection of
superior plants followed by controlled mating to produce the
progeny as new base population.
This method is effective in improving yield & other
quantitative traits by capitalige additive genetic variance in the
population

15. There are four types of recurrent selection methods –
Simple recurrent selection – Eg. Improve carotene
content in carrot.
Recurrent selection for GCA – other pollinated varities
as a tester.
Recurrent selection for SCA – inbred as tester.
Reciprocal recurrent selection –both the population
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
improved together..

16. In cross pollinated vegetable crops loss of vigour is
associated with inbreeding though the extent of such
depression varies with the crops and cultivars.
INBREEDING IS APPLIED AS A BREEDING METHOD TO –
(A) Improve the individual plant in CUCURBITS.
(B) Attain uniformity in plants chacters so that the improved
population can be regarded as a new cultivar.
(C) Develop inbred lines for utilization in the development
of synthetic or hybrid cultivar in the crops like –cauliflower, cabbage,Broccoli, and carrot etc.

17. HYBRIDIZATIONAND SLECTION FROM
ADVANCED GENERATION
• HYBRIDIZATION:-
Crossing of two genetically dissimilar
plants is known as hybridization when
genetic variability is not present in the
crop.

18. Hybridization is basically employed to generate
variability in the genotype because selection for any
trait would become effective when genetic variability in
the population under improvement is high.
Hybrid progenies of cross pollinated crops are handled
by two different approaches
Population Improvement – cabbage , cauliflower,
raddish, spinch , etc
Individual plant selection –cucurbits
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19. CROP VARIETY
 TOMATO pusa early dwarf, marglobe,
pusa ruby, hisar lalima,
panjab chhuhara
 BRINJAL pusa kranti, sadabahar baingan,
pant rituraj

20.  PEA PH-1, GC-141, GC-195
 COWPEA Pusa Dofasli
 MUSK MELON Pusa sharbati,
 WATER MELON Arka manik
 RADISH pusa himani
 SWEET POTATO pusa sunehri

21.  Heterosis :-
superiority of an F1 hybrid over its parents.
 Heterosis breeding for the development of hybrid
cultivar mainly utilizes dominance variance in both
self and cross pollinated vegetable crops.

22. Development of hybrid varieties consists of three steps
namely-
Selection of parents (Inbred or homozygous line)
Testing the combining ability of parents.
Production of F1 hybrids.
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23.  Method of Hybrid Seed Production:-
1) Emasculation and hand pollination:-
brinjal ,okra, peas & beans .
Tomato,
2)Hand pollination without emasculation:-use of
male sterility
ex-tomato , brinjal, chilli.