ACHIEVMENTS IN MUTATION

BREEDING

S.RENUGA
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Mutation

 Mutation
– sudden heritable change in the
phenotype of an individual.
 Mutation arise due to changes in DNA bases.

spontaneous mutation
 Type of mutation
induced mutation
Mutation breeding
 Mutation breeding – variation breeding
 Mutation breeding deliberate induction and
development of mutant lines for crop
development
 Inducing desirable mutation for crop
improvement
 Eg: larger seeds, new colour of fruits etc.,
Achievement in mutation breeding

Disease resistance:
 Verticilium wilt resistance in peppermint
 Victorial blight resistance in barley
 Downy mildew resistance in pearl millet
Modification of plant structure:
 Bush habit in dry bean
 Dwarf mutants in wheat
Nutritional quality augmentation:
 Opaque and floury endosperm mutants in maize
Chemical composition alteration
 Low erucic acid in rapeseed
Horticultural variants
 Development of various floral mutants
 Breeding of asexually propagated species
 Development of genetic stock
 Development of earliness
Natural mutants

 Rice:
GFB-24 – Developed from konamani var
Dee-gee-woo-gen-mutant from rice in china
 Sorghum
Co18- mutant from Co2
 Cotton
DB3-12 mutant from G.heroaccum
Induced mutants
Rice:
Jagannath- gamma ray induced mutant from T.141
Wheat:
Sarbathi Sonora- gamma radiation from sonara64
NP 836 Mutants, through irradiation from NP 709
Cotton
• Indore2 induced from malwa upland 4
• MLU 7 –gamma ray induced mutant from 1143EE
• MLU 10 – gamma ray induced mutant from MLU 4
Mustard - Primax whited
Sugarcane – Co8152 gamma ray induced mutant from Co 527
Ground nut- NC 4
Castor – aruna(NPH1) – Fast neutron induced mutants fromHC6
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