Anther Culture of Rice for Haploidy Induction and Accelerated Development of Striga Resistant Germplasm
摘要
Doubled haploidy is the fastest way of achieving completely homozygous plants in one generation. It shortens the time required for the development of mutant varieties allowing rapid response against threats to sustainable food production caused by changing climate and stresses due to emerging pests like Striga. In this chapter, we describe step-by-step protocols to obtain doubled haploid rice with fixed novel mutant variants by anther culture from gamma ray irradiated M1 populations to accelerate mutation breeding for resistance to Striga in rice.