Strategies for enhancement in food production practice · Medium

The high yielding hybrid crop varieties to exploit hybrid vigour, the farmers to purchase fresh hybrid seed every year because

‘Himgiri’ developed by hybridization and selection for disease resistance against rust pathogens is a variety of

…… 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

Hidden hunger can be defined as

Choose the odd one w.r.t habitat

Need for breeding plants, to improve food quality are
I. lack of adequate food having adequate nutritional requirements in the world
II. majority people are unable to buy enough fruits, vegetables, legumes, fish and meat and thus suffer from deficiencies or hidden hunger
III. essential micronutrients are absent from diet
Choose the correct option

One of the alternate sources of protein for animal and human nutrition is

Assertion: Normal embryos are often not formed
in interspecific hybridization.

Reason: Such embryos can germinate in culture
conditions.

The basis for artificial selection of desirable plant is?

Assertion : Mass selection is useful in
homozygous plants.

Reason : Mass selection does not work with
cross-pollinated plants.

The host crop plants may be resistant to insects pests due to the
I. morphological characteristics
II. biochemical characteristics
III. physiological characteristics
Choose the correct option

Mule is produced by

Which of the following is the main aim of evaluation of germplasm in plant breeding program?

Crossing of unrelated pure breeding animals of different traits within the same breed is called