Commerical Plant Breeding in Vegetables and Outcomes

Demand-Led Plant Breeding is an emerging approach that enables Plant Breeding to develop higher performing varieties/hybrids that meet customer requirements on time and as market demand. Developing the objectives of Plant Breeding progograms requires the breeders the breeders to get an absolute clarity on the various traits he/she is planning to incorporate in new varieties/ hybrids. Several aspects of the traits are to be considered plant breeding goals and targets depend on the company’s, business strategies, opportunities, and several other considerations. The plant breeder is at the core of these planning exercise, and is also the person responsible for delivering these objectives Designing of objectives of plant breeding programs are different in public and in private plant breeding programs. The goals and objectives are to be set with SMART target and the performance indicators, which are clearly definable and measurable. During this process, crop breeding aims either to exploit maximum of hybrid vigor or least compromise with hybrid vigor when another trait is commercially more relevant.

Author(s): Madala Nagaraju

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