Everything you need to know about nanotechnology in crop improvement ! Q. 1. What do you mean by nanotechnology? Ans. The term nanotechnology was defined in 1974 by a professor from Tokyo Science University, Norio Taniguchi. By definition nanotechnology deals with units that are smaller than 100 nanometers. Nanotechnology has been defined in various ways. Some definitions of nanotechnology are [...]
Everything you need to know about plant breeding ! Q. 1. What is plant breeding? Ans. Plant breeding is defined as the art, science and technology of improving genetic make-up of crop plants in relation to their economic use for mankind. Q. 2. Who defined plant breeding as current phase of crop evolution? Ans. N.W. Simmonds (1979) defined plant breeding [...]
Everything you need to know about mutation breeding ! Q. 1. What is mutation? Ans. Mutation refers to sudden heritable change in the phenotype of an individual. In molecular terms, mutation is defined as the permanent and relatively rare change in the number or sequence of nucleotide. Q. 2. Who first discovered mutation? Ans. Mutation was first discovered by Wright [...]