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Sunflower: Breeding for high yielding hybrids

Sunflower: Breeding for high yielding hybrids

Chakraborty, Nihar Ranjan
Lakshman, Shyam Sundar

Paperback

Botany & Horticulture

ISBN10: 6139456215
ISBN13: 9786139456215
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Published: Jun 13 2025
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sunflower (Helianthus annus L.) is a photo insensitive, highly cross pollinated crop due to protandrus condition of stamens, and pollination by honey bees. The principal states of sunflower cultivation in India are Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu which are regarded as traditional areas. Sunflower has the potential to be introduced on a large scale during rainfed kharif and rabi, summer under irrigation in most of the states. Wide genetic variation is required in breeding for major agronomically important traits like seed yield, oil yield and composition, flowering behavior, disease resistance. Plant breeding programs need such genetic variation to be able to combine positive traits from different parents to provide the required profitable and sustainable sunflower hybrids of the future. Enhancing the oil yield is the ultimate goal of any sunflower improvement programme. However, being poly-genetically controlled trait, selection based on yield alone is not effective. Genetic variation in traits of sunflower can be gainfully exploited in a crop improvement program, particularly for selection of elite germplasm having more oil content, seed and oil yield.

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