Everything you need to know about gene revolution in crop plants ! Q. 1. What is gene revolution? Ans. Gene revolution refers to quantum jump in the productivity of various field crops through use of transgenic cultivars. It has been achieved through the application of Agricultural Biotechnology. Hence agricultural biotechnology is referred to as the 'Evergreen Revolution' or the "Gene [...]
Everything you need to know about genetic variance ! Q. 1. What is genetic variance? Ans. The heritable portion of phenotypic (total) variance is called genetic variance. It is of three types, viz., additive, dominance and epistatic variances. Q. 2. What is additive variance? Ans. Average effects of genes on all segregating loci refer to additive variance. It is the [...]
Everything you need to know about genomics in crop Plants ! Q. 1. What is genomics? Ans. The term genomics was first used by Thomas Roderick in 1986. It refers to the study of structure and function of entire genome of a living organism. Q. 2. Define Genome. Ans. Genome refers to the basic set of chromosomes. In a genome, [...]