Hybrid breeding technology is one of the most feasible options to meet the future food challenges and sustainable agriculture. Large number of cross combinations are attempted and evaluated in hybrid breeding programs, but a few are selected. This is labour intensive, time consuming and costly; despite of it selection efficiency is too low. Therefore, it is important to explore alternate approaches to enhance the selection efficiency to predict hybrid performance. Pedigree data of the parental lines and molecular marker have been effectively employed to predict field performance of hybrids. Marker technologies, wider gene compatibility and QTL approaches on the basis of parental genomic variation are predominantly used for predicting hybrid performance. | Prediction of hybrid performance in crop plants: Molecular and recent approaches
