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 [...]
Everything you need to know about the hybridization method used in plant breeding ! Q. 1. What are breeding methods involving hybridization? Ans. The following breeding methods involve hybridization: (i) Pedigree breeding method. (ii) Bulk breeding method. (iii) Single seed descent method. (iv) Heterosis breeding, and (v) Population improvement approaches. Q. 2. What are uses of hybridization? Ans. Hybridization is [...]