Abstract            Volume:12  Issue-5  Year-2024         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

Genetic variability among plants of a population is a precondition for a successful crop improvement strategy. Sunflower is an important oil crop to humans primarily for edible oil, and other purposes. Sunflower improvement showed a significant change from the past to the present to become one of the most significant oil crops. Considerable improvement has been made in oil-type sunflower from domestication to sophisticated research findings in its breeding, and genetics. Recently sunflower research has advanced to biotechnological tools of CRISPR-Cas9 techniques with different approaches contributing to modern breeding and genetics to change the genetic constitution and phenotypic structure of sunflower. So far sunflower improvement work and evaluating the genetic variability and associated studies are the basis for sunflower breeding for future improvement works. A review of studies done by scholars on genetic variability and morphological characterization of cultivated oil-type sunflower for economically important traits is the target and motivation of this paper.

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