Genetic Diversity and Improvement of Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea is a very important floriculture crop for multipurpose use. A good number of varieties have been developed in different parts of world/India through detection and isolation of bud sports, hybridization and induced mutation. All basic scientific information are available on different aspects of Bougainvillea. Considering its importance more work should be initiated for development of improved varieties through careful selective breeding. Conservation of genetic diversity of Bougainvillea is an important aspect. Breeding work may be initiated to develop more and more strains tolerant to climate change.