Strategies for selecting individuals in common bean breeding programs

Abstract

In conducing of segregating populations using Bulk or Bulk within F2 progenies methods, at the time of obtaining the progeny, the choice of individuals is usually performed visually. To improve efficient, the character data could be obtained, and the selection would be made using this information. For this, there are some alternatives, as mass selection, between and within selection, and also the use of mixed models, especially BLUP (Bernardo, 2002; Resende, 2007; Nunes et al., 2008). The aim of this study was to compare selection strategies in identifying the individuals who will lead to the best progenies in order to continue the selection process.