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ABSTRACT

Crop improvement can help us to meet the food requirement and feed for the growing population.The scientific developments made during this period convinced the scientific community about the potential role and tissue culture and haploidy became one of important areas of interest. Haploidy is a valuable tool for applied as well as basic research for improvement in vegetable crops. The successes of double haploid production depend on various factors like flower parts development stage, culture media, genotype, donor parent growth condition and haploid detection methods. Double haploid help for developing homozygous inbred line, shortening breeding cycle or time, enhanced genetic purity,efficient population for QTLs mapping, marker development and accelerate marker assisted breeding programme. Hence, DH technology has
important contribution in accelerating breeding program in vegetable crops and breaking chain for biotic and abiotic constraints and sustainable vegetable production.

Keywords: Double haploid, Generation advancement, Vegetable crops, Crop improvement

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