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ABT-320
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LECTURE 8
BACKCROSS METHOD GENETIC BASIS OF INBREEDING PLANT HYBRIDIZATION
BACKCROSS METHOD
The crossing of an F1 hybrid with either of its parent is referred to as backcross. It is used as a method of breeding to improve an otherwise high yielding and popular variety for a specific character. A superior variety which needs improvement for a special character serves as the recipient or recurrent parent. The donor or non-recurrent parent acts as a source of gene(s) to be added to the recurrent parent. Any character with good testability can be transferred in this way. Oligogenes can easily be transferred by this backcross method. However, this method can be employed even in the case of polygenic characters.
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