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Q: What are the advantages of breeding for disease-resistance in plants?
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Q: What are pure bred strains, P1 , F1 and F2 generations?
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Q: Who developed hybrid corn in the United States?
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Q: What do we mean when we say a strain is true-breeding?
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Q: Using monoploid plants to select for herbicide resistance?
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Q: With which trait golden rice is a transgenic crop of the future?
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Q: Mention the advantages of selectind pea plants foe experiment by mendal?
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Q: explain how hybrid plant varieties are developed.
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Q: What is a cultivar
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Q: Figure 4 shows the hybridization process between plant P and Q. b) What is process A?
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Q: Show seven parts of constarsting traits in pea plant studied by mendal?
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Q: Discuss the effects of polyploidy among plant species and its impact in agriculture?
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Q: What is bagging technique? How is it useful in a plant breedingprogramme?
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Q: It is possible for a new species to arise from the cross of two species that result in a new hybrid…
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Q: Hybridization of a homozygous dominant and homozygous recessive plant was conducted. What is the…
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Q: Hybridization of a homozygous dominant and homozygous recessive plant was conducted. What is the…
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- Why is it so expensive to produce a hybrid plant seed?Maize is a highly cross-pollinated crop and heterotic phenomenon is evident from the currently available hybrids. If you are given a huge random germplasm pool of maize, what procedure you will adopt to develop competitive high yielding hybrids.What are the contribution of Ahmed Khan in Bangalore and Ramesh Chandra Dagar in Sonipat?