Importance of starting material for plant breeding

¹ Computer and Information Sciences Department, Povolzhskiy State University of Telecommunications and Informatics, Samara, 443010, Russia
² Laboratory of Breeding and Seed Farming of Cereal and Sorghum Crops, Volga NIISS - branch of the Samara Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ust-Kinelskiy, Samara region, 446442, Russia
³ FSBEI HE Siberian Fire and Rescue Academy EMERCOM of Russia, Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, 662972, Russia
⁴ Physical Geography and Landscape Planning Department, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, 199178, Russia

^* Corresponding author: alzolkin@list.ru

Abstract

All agricultural crops are created by breeding. But the use of breeding is closely related to the methods of obtaining the source material. As these methods improved, new possibilities for breeding opened up and its creative role in the creation of new plant breeds increased. It is very important to know what all or a certain group of breeds have in common and how they differ from each other. It is important to emphasize the following points - the group of plants that make up the variety has a common origin. It is a multiplied offspring from one or a few plants. By propagating the parental initial plants, in their offspring, through breeding, they achieve similarities in economic and biological properties and morphological characteristics. The degree of this similarity, depending on the source material and breeding methods, may be different. The variety is created for cultivation in certain natural and production conditions. In the presence of appropriate natural and production conditions, the variety should provide stable high yields and quality products.