Speed Breeding-the concept to chase time for ...

Speed Breeding-the concept to chase time for breeding plant species

Author Name : Ankita Roy, Harshal Avinashe, Nidhi Dubey

ABSTRACT In respect to breeding, accelerated generation advances in segregating populations is reaching towards homozygosity that promotes genetic gain for major traits and speedy development of new, improved species. In agriculture, conventional breeding takes longer period in developing crop cultivars with minimum 8 to 10 years of the breeding cycle. Some extra-terrestrial experiments are being done to grow and develop crops on an advanced platform of speed breeding. Speed breeding basically uses an artificial environment with magnified light period so as to create lengthier time for the photosynthetic crops by quickening the breeding cycles. Globally crop production is presently facing serious losses owing to fluctuating weather conditions, resulting in quality food production being risen up but the excess growing world population under this unpredictable climate change becomes an extreme threat to agricultural sectors. The genetic gain has to be leveled up for attaining the present breeding levels to ensure food security worldwide for which new and more inventive techniques are selected to quicken up crop breeding programs. Thus, presently new and inventive techniques are used to speed up the level of crop breeding program. Certainly conventional breeding have given us several durable varieties all over the past decades, but presently such methods are used which hastens the breeding program such that varieties can be improvised within a very short time period. Speed breeding is such a procedure that is implemented for quick advance production reducing the maturity time of the crops so that agricultural levels are speeded up and the quality food production is increased to fit in the rising demands of expanding population.