Dear Muhammad,

Plant genetic is the study of the heredity and variations in plants. In other words, the study of how genes are transmited to the offspring and how the relationship stablished amongst them generate the variations in a close relationship with the environment.

Plant breeding is the set of methods used to create the desired variations and to gather them in a variety.

While plant genetic is a discipline by itself, plant breeding needs the use of several disciplines as genetic, botanic, physiology, biochemic, amongnst other.

@ Ricardo Julian Licea-Moreno,

Plant breeding deals with changes and improvement of heredity of plants which are better than the existing ones. Plant genetics deals with the heredity and variations that occur in plants. Heredity is the transfer of genes from one generation to the next. However, it is pertinent to record that “Plant breeding” was there even when the term of “Genetics” was not coined.

You need to have 'Plant Genetic' knowledge to do 'Plant Breeding'.

@ Yuan-Yeu Yau,

No doubt, one need the knowledge of Plant Genetics for Plant Breeding, but plant breeding was there even before the term of genetics was coined. According to literature, Thomas Fairchild (1717) developed first Inter specific hybrid. Yes, now a days the knowledge of genetics playing a very important role both in conventional and non-conventional plant breeding.

Ricardo Julian Licea-Moreno Yuan-Yeu Yau M. C. Sidhu

Thank you so much. Your description is very helpful for me to understand plant breeding and genetics.

@ M. C. Sidhu, yes, I agree with you.

If selection is accepted as the most universal plant improvement (generically named plant breeding) method, then plant breeding was practiced, as early as thousands years before, by Mayans which probably selected maize from interespecific teosinte's hybrids. However, the current plant breeding imply the systematization of methods using statistical designs that allow to extract those valuable phenotypes, supported by the use of other tools as molecular markers.

Plant breeding is the science & art of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics & can be accomplished through many different techniques ranging from simply selecting plants with desirable characteristics for propagation, to methods that make use of knowledge of genetics and chromosomes, to more complex molecular techniques..... whereas plant genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity specifically in plants

Plant breeding is the purposeful manipulation of plant species in order to create desired genotypes and phenotypes for specific purposes.

Plant genetic is is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity specifically in plants.

To me both of them are like two sides of a coin.

In-plant breeding we are more concerned with morphological structure.

But in genetics, we deal with physiological structure and gene manipulation.

Cood question interested