Everything you need to know about mutation breeding ! Q. 1. What is mutation? Ans. Mutation refers to sudden heritable change in the phenotype of an individual. In molecular terms, mutation is defined as the permanent and relatively rare change in the number or sequence of nucleotide. Q. 2. Who first discovered mutation? Ans. Mutation was first discovered by Wright [...]
Everything you need to know about plant tissue culture and somatic hybridization ! Q. 1. Define plant tissue culture. Ans. Plant tissue culture refers to development of whole plant from regeneration of living plant tissues in the nutrient medium (in vitro) or culture medium. Q. 2. What is culture medium? Ans. Culture medium is a nutrient medium which contains all [...]
Everything you need to know about molecular plant breeding ! Q. 1. What is molecular plant breeding? Ans. Molecular breeding is an important branch of plant breeding which is gaining increasing significance these days. Molecular breeding is of very recent origin. It developed In the 1980s with the evolution of DNA marker technologies. Molecular breeding is defined as a branch [...]