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For the future prospects of the development of buckwheat breeding important traits would be those that go beyond the limitations of the morphological and physiological characteristics of the species (self-compatibility, determinate growth, rational homeostasis of bearing). Breeders are faced with the necessity of the improvement of buckwheat’s genome potential. There are three main directions: (1) using evolutionarily obtained mutations, (2) receiving valuable recombination by means of intra- and interspecific hybridization (recombigenesis), and (3) the selection of prospective forms arising from the inbreeding of populations. The goals of the studies within this chapter were the detection of mutations (which are a major source of genetic material), studying their genetic nature, and the development of a strategy for using them in breeding practice. Results identified mutations which included three types of inflorescences, three types of green flowers, red flowers, “Brachytic central stalk with inflorescences with high percentage of seeds”, and fasciations. These were determined and classified as the natural diversity of buckwheat traits that are a wildly occurring phenomenon in the plant’s phylogenesis. |
