The invention relates to a method for breeding a mulberry variety through
colchicine mutagenesis. The method comprises the following steps: (1) performing
seedling cuttage, selecting new shoots of young mulberries and adult mulberries emerging after spring
cutting or summer
cutting, and treating terminal buds with a mutagenic agent to obtain a
mutagenesis material; and (2) culturing the
mutagenesis material for 15-20 days, selecting a variation strip, performing
chromosome identification, determining a
chromosome variation material, then breeding an induced
branch, performing character direct
mutation screening and
genetic stability screening to obtain a new variety,
grafting, and expanding propagation to establish an improved variety scion garden. According to the invention, the terminal buds of mulberries at a
special period are treated by using
colchicine and 6-benzylpurine as the mutagenic agent first; and in comparison with the existing conventional mutagenesis method, the direct
mutation rate is obviously increased, the mutagenic
lethality rate is reduced, and the breeding speed and probability of new species can be obviously be improved.