各国开展辐射育种工作为时尚短,但已取得的成就足以表明它是个崭新的育种方法。据报导,它的独特功能之一可能是在具有复杂的综合性状的优良品种上,只改变其某一不合意的性状,而不改变其他性状,能选育出旧的育种方法通常难以选育出的品种。例如:目前用辐射育种方法已经培育出来大麦、小麦和羽扇豆等的早熟品种,而用旧的育种 Radiation breeding in various countries is short-lived, but the achievements made have shown that it is a brand new breeding method. It has been reported that one of its unique functions may be that it is often difficult to breed an elite breeding program by breeding only some of the undesirable traits in a fine variety with complex general traits without changing other traits Out of the species. For example, precocious varieties such as barley, wheat and lupine have been bred by radiation breeding methods at present, but old breeding