Everything you need to know about DNA markers ! Q. 1. What is marker character? Ans. Any property of an individual showing heritable variation is referred to as a character. It includes morphological, physiological and biochemical properties in plants. Plant characters are of two types viz. qualitative (governed by one or few genes) and quantitative (governed by several genes). Those [...]
Everything you need to know about crop breeding strategies for climate change ! Q. 1. What is climate change? Ans. Climate change is any long-term significant change in the "average weather" of a region or the earth as a whole. Average weather may include average temperature, precipitation and wind patterns. It involves changes in the variability or average state of [...]
Everything you need to know about breeding for drought and salinity resistance ! Q. 1. What is stress? Ans. Stress refers to adverse conditions for crop growth and production imposed by either biotic or abiotic factors. Q. 2. What are biotic factors? Ans. Living organisms such as diseases, insects and parasitic weeds which cause stress conditions for crop growth and [...]