Backcross Method
Dr.N.Marappa
What is Back Cross ???
Parents
Parents
Test cross
Parents x
What is Back cross breeding???
A system of breeding in which repeated backcrosses are made to transfer a specific character to a well adopted variety for which the variety is deficient
Features
Application Parental material Genetic constitution No. of Backcrosses 5-6 Basic requirements
Requirements
A satisfactory recurrent parent, usually an
established cultivar
A donor parent with a desirable characteristic
A sufficient number of backcrosses to reconstitute the recurrent parent High heritability of trait selected
What is Donor Parent??
Line containing a gene of interest
What is Recurrent Parent ???
An elite line that can be made better by adding the gene of interest
Hemizygous a gene present in only one dose.
Homozygous
having like alleles at corresponding loci on homologous chromosomes.
Heterozygous having different alleles at corresponding loci on homologous chromosomes.
Single Gene Transfer : Linkage Drag with Traditional Backcross Breeding Donor variety
Commercial Variety
X
Resistance Gene
New Variety
Backcross Breeding Method
(A = recurrent parent, B = non-recurrent, donor parent) step 1: cross (A x B) F1 [50% of genome from A plus 50% of unrelated genome from B] step 2: backcross (A x F1)BC1F1 [50% of genome from A plus 50% of genome from F1, which itself is 50% A] therefore [50% + 50%(50%)] = 75% A genome (50% recurrent parent)
(75% recurrent parent)
step 3: backcross (A x BC1F1)BC2F1 (87.5% recurrent parent) [50% of genome from A plus 50% of genome from F1, which itself is 75% A] therefore [50% + 50%(75%)] = 87.5% A genome
step 4: backcross (A x BC2F1)BC3F1 (93.75% recurrent parent) [50% of genome from A plus 50% of genome from F1, which itself is 87.5% A] therefore [50% + 50%(87.5%)] = 93.75% A genome
step 5: backcross (A x BC3F1)BC4F1 (96.875% recurrent parent) [50% of genome from A plus 50% of genome from F1, which itself is 93.75% A] therefore [50% + 50%(93.75%)] = 96.875% A genome
General equation for average recovery of the recurrent parent:
1 - () n+1
for the F1, n= 0;
where, n is the number of backcrosses to the recurrent parent.
for BC1, n=1;
for the BC2, n=2; for the BC3, n=3, etc.
First year Parent B
F1 RR Rr x rr
x Parent A
rr