Everything you need to know about crop biodiversity and Indian legislation ! Q.1. What is Biodiversity? Ans. The biodiversity refers to the variety of life in ail forms, levels and combinations. The term biodiversity includes genetic diversity; species diversity, and ecosystem diversity. In other words, the variety of life forms -the different plants, animals and microorganisms, the genes they contain [...]
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 [...]
Everything you need to need about breeding for disease and insect resistance ! Q. 1. What is disease? Ans. In crop plants, various disorders caused by pathogens are called disease. Q. 2. What is pathogen? Ans. Various disease causing organisms such as fungi, bacteria, viruses and mycoplasma refer to pathogen. Q. 3. What is pathogenicity? Ans. Ability of a pathogen [...]