For which plants is mass selection effective, and for which individual ones?

Mass selection is the selection of a group of individuals that are similar in one or a set of desired traits, without checking their genotype. For example, from the entire population of cereals of a particular variety, only those plants are left for further reproduction that are resistant to pathogens and lodging, have large an ear with a large number of spikelets, etc.



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