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 ideotype breeding ! Q. 1. What is ideotype? Ans. A biological mode which is expected to perform or behave in a predictable manner within a defined environment is known as ideotype. It is also known as ideal plant type or model plant type. Q. 2. Who developed the concept of plant type? Ans. The [...]
Everything you need to know about polyploidy breeding ! Q. 1. What is genome? Ans. A basic set of chromosomes in which each type of chromosome is represented only one is called genome. Haploid individuals have single genome, diploid species two, triploid species three and so on. Q. 2. Who coined the term genome? Ans. The term genome was first [...]