Everything you need to know about quality breeding for crop plants ! Q. 1. What is quality? Ans. Quality refers to suitability or fitness of an economic plant product to its end use. It is of different types, viz. market quality, industrial quality, nutritional, quality, etc. Q. 2. What is market quality? Ans. Fitness of a product for marketing is [...]
Everything you need to know about synthetic and composite varieties of crops. Q. 1. What is inbred line? Ans. In allogamous species, a true breeding line obtained by continuous inbreeding is called inbred line. Main features of inbred line are given below: (i) It is relevant to cross pollinated species (ii) It is true breeding (iii) It is homozygous and [...]
Everything you need to know about the uses of statistics in genetics and plant breeding ! Q. 1. Define statistics? Ans. Statistics is a branch of applied mathematics which deals with collection, presentation, analysis and interpretation of numerical data. The statistics which is commonly used in genetics and plant breeding is divided into two parts, viz.: (i) Statistical methods, and [...]