Everything you need to know about molecular plant breeding ! Q. 1. What is molecular plant breeding? Ans. Molecular breeding is an important branch of plant breeding which is gaining increasing significance these days. Molecular breeding is of very recent origin. It developed In the 1980s with the evolution of DNA marker technologies. Molecular breeding is defined as a branch [...]
Everything you need to know about gene revolution in crop plants ! Q. 1. What is gene revolution? Ans. Gene revolution refers to quantum jump in the productivity of various field crops through use of transgenic cultivars. It has been achieved through the application of Agricultural Biotechnology. Hence agricultural biotechnology is referred to as the 'Evergreen Revolution' or the "Gene [...]
Everything you need to know about genomics in crop Plants ! Q. 1. What is genomics? Ans. The term genomics was first used by Thomas Roderick in 1986. It refers to the study of structure and function of entire genome of a living organism. Q. 2. Define Genome. Ans. Genome refers to the basic set of chromosomes. In a genome, [...]