What Is Plant Breeding And How It Is Useful For Your Farm

Plants are useful to us in many ways. Besides food, they are used for their rich ornamental and medicinal properties. The breeding process and proper maintenance starts from the time when the seed is sown into the soil.

Breeding of a plant is a science that helps genetics of plants to adapt in a way that it benefits mankind and meets their needs. This breeding process helps to enhance the quality and production of crops. In this article, we will learn about the breeding process and its advantages in detail.

Activities performed under breeding process

• Creation a farm with different varieties of agricultural crops
• Selection of crops for breeding process
• Perform the method and evaluate the condition of the crops
• Release and Multiplication
• Lastly, distributing of the new yields of crop

Types of breeding process

Breeding process is mainly carried out in two types: traditional process and modern process. Let us see each one of them in detail.

Traditional process:

This process has been used by farmers since primitive times. In this method, close or distinct species are identified, selected and crossed for the breeding process to produce new crops. These new crops have a new genetic background due to the combination of features of selected species of plants.

Offspring obtained as a result of the cross are again crossed with the high yielding parent. This ensures that the offspring resembles most like the high yielding parent. The resulted offspring is then tested for yield and resistance towards mildew to develop high-yielding resistant plants.

Modern process:

Modern process involves the method of molecular biology. This technology helps in selection, genetic modification, and to infuse required aspects or features into plants. Introduction of innovative amenities in molecular biology has led to the conversion of conventional breeding of the plant into molecular breeding.

Breeding of plants has resulted in 50% increase in the production of all types of agricultural crops. This means to enhance the growth of plants delivers better yielding varieties. It provides increased agronomic traits like resistance towards disease and drought, increased vigour, erosion control and stress tolerance that benefits farm in numerous ways.