What are the advantages of haploid breeding?

Advantages of haploid breeding: after chromosome doubling, haploid plants can produce homozygous diploids in the first generation, and the excellent homozygous offspring selected from them will not be separated, and the performance will be neat and consistent, which can shorten the breeding cycle. Traits controlled by recessive genes in haploid plants are easy to appear because they are not covered by dominant genes, although they are doubled in chromosomes. This is very beneficial to mutation breeding and mutation genetic research. When the frequency of induction is high, haploid can fully reveal the types of recombinant gametes in plants and provide new genetic resources and selection materials. Haploid breeding will play a greater role in crop variety improvement if it can further improve the induction frequency and combine with cross breeding, mutation breeding and distant hybridization.

Haploid breeding can be applied to the breeding of new vegetable lines, such as waxy wheat, sweet (hot) pepper anther, cucumber, corn, cotton and so on. Improve plant varieties to make them have higher yield and better quality.

Haploid breeding refers to the use of anther culture and other methods to induce haploid, so that its single chromosome doubles in pairs and becomes a homozygote with vitality and normal fruiting, thus breeding new varieties.