Utilization of Germplasm Introductions in Sunflower Improvement in India

Abstract

Plant introduction in broader perspective is a crop species
or a variety or a genetic stock introduced from one
country to another. In olden days the moving farmers
and communities carried with them the crops and the
varieties used by them to newer areas of their migration.
After the advent of new world, the movement of crops
between the new and old world increased enrichin:'
the crop diversity enormously in both the regiaci
Sunflower is one of the recent examples of successful
introduction of a new world crop to India from erstwhile
USSR, helping in crop diversification and improving
edible oil supply in the country.