This document outlines the principles and methods of plant breeding. It discusses the impact of parents, quality of parents, objectives of breeding, breeding methods, and pedigree. The main methods covered are for cross-pollinated crops, including mass selection, progeny selection, and recurrent selection, and for self-pollinated crops, like mass selection, pure line selection, bulk method, and back-cross method. It also defines a pure line as the progeny of a single homozygous plant of a self-pollinated species.

2. Sumbited by
VIKAS KUMAR SINGH
M. SC. (Ag), Department of Genetics & Plant
Breeding, Chaudhary Charan Singh
University, Meerut
Sumbited to
DR. SACHIN KUMAR
Asstt. Professor, Department of Genetics
& Plant Breeding, Chaudhary Charan
Singh University, Meerut
PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF
PLANT BREEDING

3. PRINCIPLES OF PLANT BREEDING ?
1. Impact of parents,
2. Quality of parents,
3. Object of breeding,
4. Methods of breeding,
5. Learn the pedigree.

4. METHODS OF PLANT BREEDING ?
1. Cross Pollinated
a. Mass Selection,
b. Progeny Selection,
c. Recurrent Selection.
2. Self pollinated
a. Mass Selection,
b. Pure Line Selection,
c. Bulk Method,
d. Back-Cross Method.

5. PURE LINE
THEORY

8. A pure line is the progeny of a
single
homozygous plant of a self
pollinated
species