Tag: plant breeding
Questions Related to plant breeding
A cybrid is hybrid carrying
Branch of biology dealing with improvement of plant variety
From which technique, new and better varieties of crop plants are formed
During hybridisation, offspring with hybrid vigour superior to both parents are self pollinated for a few successive generations to .............
During somatic hybridisation in plants
For hybridisation, which part is removed from bisexual flowers
Consider the following statements: Hybrid plants can show.
a. Sterility
b. Mosaicism
c. Crossing over
d. Vigour
e. Homozygosis
Which of the statements are correct?
Plant breeders are interested in apomixes because it __________________.
A breeder crossed a pure bred all plant having white flowers to a pure bred short plant having blue flowers. He obtained $202\ F _{1}$ progeny and found that they are all tall having white flowers. Upon selfing there $F _{1}$ plants, he obtained a progeny of $2160$ plants. Approximately, how many of these are likely to be short and having blue flowers?
Process of bringing wild species of plants under cultivation to suit human needs is called