Somatic hybridization is a powerful tool in plant breeding. However, it faces certain limitations. Which of the following is NOT a typical limitation of somatic hybridization?
Regeneration of hybrid plants can be difficult
Protoplast fusion may be random and unpredictable
Requirement for homozygous parental lines
Cytoplasmic incompatibility may occur
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In case of plant breeding cross hybridization is a time consuming and tedious process because
It includes emasculation, bagging, and tagging which are tedious and time-consuming.
It does not include any specific steps and is easy to perform.
It is a simple process that takes only a few days.
It requires only cross-pollination without any other procedures.
Plants having similar genotypes produced by plant breeding are called
Haploid
Autoploid
Clone
None of these
Wonder wheat is new wheat variety developed by
Mexico’s International Wheat and Maize Improvement Centre
Indian National Botanical Research Institute
Australian Crop Improvement Centre
African Crop Improvement Centre
Jaya, Ratna developed for green revolution in India are the varieties of?
Maize
Rice
Wheat
Bajra
…… is a phenomenon by which genetic variations is achieved through changes in the base sequences with in genes, which creates a new character or trait absent in parental generation
Apomixis
Mutation
Mutation breeding
Heterosis
India’s wheat yield revolution in the 1960s was possible primarily due to
Hybrid seeds
Increased chlorophyll content
Mutations resulting in plant height reduction
Quantitative trait mutations
was/is grown in
East India
West India
North India
South India
A breeder is trying to develop a new variety of wheat resistant to a specific fungal pathogen. They have identified a wild relative of wheat that exhibits resistance but has poor yield. Which breeding strategy is MOST likely to introduce the resistance gene into the high-yielding cultivated variety while minimizing the transfer of undesirable traits from the wild relative?
Mass selection
Pedigree analysis
Backcross breeding
Mutation breeding
Methods of breeding for acquiring disease resistance are
I. conventional breeding techniques
II. mutation breeding
III. radiation breeding
Chose the correct option
I and II
I and III
I only
III only
The raw material obtained, from which one of the following plants, and is used in paper making?
Jerusalem artichoke
Oryza sativa
Sorghum vulgare
Butea monosperma
