Everything you need to know about transgenic breeding ! Q. 1. What is transgenic? Ans. Genetically engineered organisms are called transgenics. In other words, a genotype developed by the process of genetic engineering is called transgenic (plural transgenics). It may be a plant, an animal or microbes such as fungi, viruses and bacteria. Q. 2. Who coined the term transgenic? [...]
Everything you need to know about the introduction and selection methods of plant breeding ! Q. 1. What are breeding methods? Ans. Various procedures (selections, hybridization, mutation, etc.) which are used for genetic improvement of crop plants are known as breeding methods. Q. 2. How will you classify plant breeding methods? Ans. Plant breeding methods are classified on the basis [...]
Everything you need to know about doubled haploids in crop improvement ! Q. 1. What do you mean by doubled haploids? Ans. Doubled haploids refer to the diploid lines which are obtained by doubling the chromosome number of a haploid line by colchicine treatment. Such condition is referred to as doubled haploids. Q. 2. What are main features doubled haploids? [...]