Everything you need to know about distant hybridization of plant species ! Q. 1. What is distant hybridization? Ans. Crossing between different species of the same genes or different genera of the same family is called distant hybridization; also known as wide crossing. It is of two types, viz. interspecific hybridization and intergeneric hybridization. Q. 2. What is interspecific hybridization? [...]
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 [...]