Everything you need to know about quality breeding for crop plants ! Q. 1. What is quality? Ans. Quality refers to suitability or fitness of an economic plant product to its end use. It is of different types, viz. market quality, industrial quality, nutritional, quality, etc. Q. 2. What is market quality? Ans. Fitness of a product for marketing is [...]
Everything you need to know about synthetic and composite varieties of crops. Q. 1. What is inbred line? Ans. In allogamous species, a true breeding line obtained by continuous inbreeding is called inbred line. Main features of inbred line are given below: (i) It is relevant to cross pollinated species (ii) It is true breeding (iii) It is homozygous and [...]
Everything you need to know about doubled haploids in crop improvement ! Q. 1. What do you mean by doubled haploids? Ans. Doubled haploids refer to the diploid lines which are obtained by doubling the chromosome number of a haploid line by colchicine treatment. Such condition is referred to as doubled haploids. Q. 2. What are main features doubled haploids? [...]