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 [...]
A brief comparison of pre-breeding and traditional breeding is presented below. Comparison # 1. Pre-Breeding: 1. Pre-breeding is also known as genetic enhancement. 2. It leads to genetic enhancement of germplasm. 3. It leads to value addition. 4. It leads to broadening the genetic base of the population. 5. The chief breeding method id backcross method. 6. The end products [...]
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 [...]