Rapid Cycling and Generation Advancement for Accelerated Mutation Breeding in Sorghum
摘要
Rapid cycling techniques have become preferred methods in recent years to speed up the plant breeding process, especially for plant varieties recalcitrant to in vitro tissue culture. Manipulation of plant growth management of components such as pot size, irrigation, nutrition and light/day length can substantially accelerate the plant growth cycle from seed to harvest. In this chapter, we describe how to shorten the generation time of sorghum to have 4–6 generations per year to speed the plant breeding process including mutation breeding for resistance to Striga.