Everything you need to know about DNA markers ! Q. 1. What is marker character? Ans. Any property of an individual showing heritable variation is referred to as a character. It includes morphological, physiological and biochemical properties in plants. Plant characters are of two types viz. qualitative (governed by one or few genes) and quantitative (governed by several genes). Those [...]
Everything you need to know about crop breeding strategies for climate change ! Q. 1. What is climate change? Ans. Climate change is any long-term significant change in the "average weather" of a region or the earth as a whole. Average weather may include average temperature, precipitation and wind patterns. It involves changes in the variability or average state of [...]
Everything you need to know about crop biodiversity and Indian legislation ! Q.1. What is Biodiversity? Ans. The biodiversity refers to the variety of life in ail forms, levels and combinations. The term biodiversity includes genetic diversity; species diversity, and ecosystem diversity. In other words, the variety of life forms -the different plants, animals and microorganisms, the genes they contain [...]