Everything you need to know about heterosis breeding ! Q. 1. What is heterosis? Ans. The superiority of F1 hybrid in one or more characters over its parents is called heterosis; also known as hybrid vigour. Q. 2. Who coined the term heterosis? Ans. The term heterosis was coined by Shull in 1914 working with maize crop. Q. 3. What [...]
Everything you need to know about ideotype breeding ! Q. 1. What is ideotype? Ans. A biological mode which is expected to perform or behave in a predictable manner within a defined environment is known as ideotype. It is also known as ideal plant type or model plant type. Q. 2. Who developed the concept of plant type? Ans. The [...]
Everything you need to know about polyploidy breeding ! Q. 1. What is genome? Ans. A basic set of chromosomes in which each type of chromosome is represented only one is called genome. Haploid individuals have single genome, diploid species two, triploid species three and so on. Q. 2. Who coined the term genome? Ans. The term genome was first [...]