Does anyone know what number of seeds I need to plant in order to maintain / mutiply a seed sample of buckwheat without a bottleneck effect?
For buckwheat, minimum 218 seeds should be planted. This has been experimentally calculated in a research work done in my University.
Dear Kristina,
When I have been worked on buckwheat, I used 30 seeds and 5 repetitions. So 150 seeds as a minumum for one test of seed germination (or for one test of early growth).
Best regards, Bozena
Dear Kristina,
I recommend to you use more than 200 seeds for it if you have enough seed and storage area.
For maintaning or keeping an optimum population size of a self-pollinated crop (if it is uniform and stable/DUS), you just keep small viable seed population size comparing to that for a cross-pollinated crop (especially for a case of low naturally mutation rate; however, when I worked with inducing mutation, e.g. by irradiation, I tried to keep a large population size during segregation for selection of a desired plant for further evaluation).
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