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 crop genetic resources and centers of diversity ! Q. 1. What do you mean by plant genetic resources? Ans. Genetic material of plants which is of value as a resource for present and future generations of people is referred to as plant genetic resources. Q. 2. What do you mean by gene pool? Ans. [...]
Any given volume, V of soil (Fig. 3.1) consists of: (i) Volume of solids Vs (ii) Volume of liquid (water) Vw, and (iii) Volume of gas (air) Va The porosity n, the volumetric moisture content w and the saturation s are defined as N = Vv/V Obviously, w = s.n. Further, if the weight of water in a wet soil [...]