Crop Variety Improvement
Crop Variety Improvement: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Genetic Engineering, Plant Tissue Culture, Somatic Hybridisation, Crop Variety Improvement, Biofortification, Plant Hybridisation, Interspecific Hybridisation, Plant Breeding Methods and, Intergeneric Hybridization
Important Questions on Crop Variety Improvement
What different factors are used to improve crop variety?
Why is crop variety improvement important?
What are the applications of genetic engineering in our daily life?
Explain the term genetic engineering.
Give some examples of somatic hybrids.
What do you understand by somatic hybridisation?
The basic principle of single cell culture is the isolation of very small number of intact living cells and cultures them on a suitable nutrient medium.
Define single cell culture.
What are the advantages of plant tissue culture?
Define plant tissue culture.
Genetic engineering is the modern plant breeding method.
What is a modern plant breeding program?
What is Intergeneric hybridization give example?
What are the criteria for the selection of parents with desired characters?
What are the different methods of selection?
Explain the term artificial insemination.
Define the term interspecific hybridisation.
What is the process of breeding crops for improved food quality?
Plant breeding aims to produce
The science of improving crop varieties is called
