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 [...]
Everything you need to know about breeding for drought and salinity resistance ! Q. 1. What is stress? Ans. Stress refers to adverse conditions for crop growth and production imposed by either biotic or abiotic factors. Q. 2. What are biotic factors? Ans. Living organisms such as diseases, insects and parasitic weeds which cause stress conditions for crop growth and [...]
Everything you need to know about apomixis in plant breeding! Q.1. What is apomixis? Give its main features. Ans. The term apomixis was first used by Winkler in 1906. Apomixis refers to the development of seed without fertilization. In other words it does not involve sexual fusion for development of seed. It differs from amphimixis which involves union of male [...]