Even though conventional breeding is presently the most commonly employed method in crop improvement, it has limitations of being labour-intensive, resource-consuming, and takes a long time, often requiring several years to progress from early phenotype and genotype screening to the initial crossbreeding for commercial varieties (Tester and Langridge 2010). Conventional breeding faces difficulties in achieving simultaneous improvement of all the desired traits while avoiding undesirable ones. This challenge arises from factors such as genetic correlations between traits, population structure, linkage disequilibrium, and the possibility of linkage drag (Hartl and Clark 1997).