This invention relates to the field of
rapeseed breeding technology, specifically to a method for selecting "double-low" Chinese
rapeseed varieties based on
open pollination. The method involves: hybridizing high-
erucic acid, high-
glucosinolate parent lines with low-
erucic acid, low-
glucosinolate parent lines to create F1
hybrid combinations; isolating the F1 generation for propagation and
open pollination to obtain the F2 generation segregating
population; isolating the F2 generation for propagation, selecting individual plants, and determining
erucic acid and
glucosinolate content; retaining "double-low" individual plants for
open pollination based on erucic acid and glucosinolate results to obtain F3 generation seeds; subsequent generations are planted under isolated propagation conditions, and selection is performed within each generation using open
pollination according to breeding objectives until genetic equilibrium is reached. The advantages of this invention are: (1) improved selection efficiency and accuracy of erucic acid and glucosinolate traits in Chinese
rapeseed; (2) the selected low-erucic acid, low-glucosinolate breeding populations are not generated through self-
pollination; (3) improved selection efficiency of other important agronomic traits in Chinese rapeseed.