BREEDING INVESTIGATIONS OF BIPARENTAL MATING IN BHENDI (Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench) The genetic improvement of any crop relies mainly on the presence of substantial magnitude of variability in the populations and the extent to which the desirable trait is heritable. Breeders very often use segregating populations as source populations to exercise selection for identifying homozygous recombinant lines with better performance to develop varieties. Most often the source F2 population of single cross hybrids and/or double cross hybrids would offer limited opportunities for achieving high...

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important staple food crop of the world. Rice is most extensively investigated crop from the research point of view but still there is a lot of scope to improve the specific traits. The micronutrients content like iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) and protein content major considerations. The lack of micronutrients like Fe and Zn in staple food crops is a wide spread nutrition and health problem in most of the developing countries. It has been realized that the development of varieties with dense micronutrient content helps us to eliminate the malnutrition, through...