About Lesson
- May or may not include hybridization
- Make IP selections based on single, ideal or desirable phenotype and BULK seed
- May repeat or go directly to performance testing
Mass Selection has 2 important functions:
- Rapid improvement in land-race or mixed cultivars
- Maintenance of existing cultivars (sometimes purification)
- Success depends on extent of variation and h2 of the traits of interest
- Land races make an ideal starting source
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