author(s)
Sabira M and Shruthy ON

abstract
With the surging global population, decreasing arable farmland area and deteriorating environment, there is a strong requirement. For multiple breeding approaches to reduce the crop breeding cycle and to augment breeding efficiency with high productivity to meet the global food demands. Mutation breeding is one of the pivotal techniques for inducing novel variations in traits such as earliness, high yield, quality, breaking undesirable linkages, pest and disease resistance that leads to fasten the crop breeding cycles.