Effects of Mutation and Hybridization on Breeding of Super High Yield Wheat Varieties

In order to develop high quality wheat varieties with super high yield, a theory which improved the genetic difference between parents by performing radi- ation mutation on them to enhance heterosis was proposed. The dry seeds treated and planted last year were radiated frequently by X- ray from 2003 to 2004. Then the dry seeds were radiated by high energy X ray combined with nuclear magnetic resonance from 2005 to 2007. We have treated the dry seeds repeatedly for 3 years and gained a variety of aberrant plants. These mutants were used as parents that were hybridized with the best plants in field. It was shown that a lot of mutant plants appeared in the f＇llial generations. After that, we selected big grains and super big grains among them. The result showed that, middle stem plants with big grains and low stem plants with big grains appeared. This phenomenon might be due to the breakthrough of linkage relationship between big grain trait and high stem trait. With the technique practice and materials, the new thoughts and methods were provided for induction and utilization of heterosis of wheat, which created a va- riety of seed selection and breeding materials for breeding super wheat varieties.

Breeding of Super-large-grain Wheat Germplasms

[Objectives]This study was conducted to breed high-yielding wheat varieties. [Methods] A new breeding technology of "Artificial mutagenesis to increase genetic differences between parents and to enhance heterosis" was put forward. Longnan 71 a and Longnan 71 a mutants bred by this technology were crossed with other mutants and normal materials. [Results] In the Wudu experimental field of Longnan City, the traits of super-large grain appeared in the obverse and inverse cross with Longnan 71 a as parents. The trait of super-large grain was dominantly inherited. The traits of various combinations in the Fgeneration were segregated. In the Fgeneration, one super-large-grain low-stalk line and other lines with specific traits were selected. In the Fgeneration, two super-large-grain low-stalk large-ear lines were selected. These three super-large-grain low-stalk wheat lines had reduced plant height and good lodging resistance, and possessed two high-yielding characters among the three factors of yield, so they were expected to be further bred into high-yielding wheat varieties. One line with the largest grain length of 10.3 mm was selected in the Fgeneration. After two years of breeding, in 2022, the largest grain length was measured to be 10.6 mm, and the average 1 000-grain weight and the largest 1 000-grain weight were 75.8 and 100 g, respectively. [Conclusions] This study is about the major progress in artificial cultivation of super-large-grain wheat and has considerable practical value.