Everything you need to know about maintenance breeding ! Q.1. What is maintenance breeding? Ans. A branch/area of plant breeding which deals with principles and methods of breeder seed production is referred to as maintenance breeding. In other words, it deals with ways and means of maintaining genetic and physical purity-of released and notified varieties and parents of hybrid. It [...]
Everything you need to know about heterosis breeding ! Q. 1. What is heterosis? Ans. The superiority of F1 hybrid in one or more characters over its parents is called heterosis; also known as hybrid vigour. Q. 2. Who coined the term heterosis? Ans. The term heterosis was coined by Shull in 1914 working with maize crop. Q. 3. What [...]
Everything you need to know about ideotype breeding ! Q. 1. What is ideotype? Ans. A biological mode which is expected to perform or behave in a predictable manner within a defined environment is known as ideotype. It is also known as ideal plant type or model plant type. Q. 2. Who developed the concept of plant type? Ans. The [...]