Importance and Role of Maintenance Breeding in Self – Pollinated crop: Finger Millet (Eleusine coracana)

Abstract

Maintenance breeding is the most importance to varietal genetic stability improvement through a series of field experiments under favorable conditions .It plays an importance role in self-pollinated crops to establish a unique seed characters of both phenotypic and genotypic appearances to establish a quality seed without any genetical changes .Self-pollinated crops are always produce heterogeneous seeds by nature in where the seed characters are variable in both phenotypic and genotypic expression .so, in self pollinated crop like Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) the seed development to form a nucleus seed type is easily possible by a experimenting a series of field experiments with specially focus to selection and rejection process by the custodian farmer ,by the scientist without any Hybridization process