Everything you need to know about plant breeding ! Q. 1. What is plant breeding? Ans. Plant breeding is defined as the art, science and technology of improving genetic make-up of crop plants in relation to their economic use for mankind. Q. 2. Who defined plant breeding as current phase of crop evolution? Ans. N.W. Simmonds (1979) defined plant breeding [...]
Everything you need to know about mutation breeding ! Q. 1. What is mutation? Ans. Mutation refers to sudden heritable change in the phenotype of an individual. In molecular terms, mutation is defined as the permanent and relatively rare change in the number or sequence of nucleotide. Q. 2. Who first discovered mutation? Ans. Mutation was first discovered by Wright [...]
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 [...]