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Plant Breeding

Question

A very time-consuming and tedious process in plant breeding is

Easy

A

Germplasm collection
B

Evaluation and selection of parents
C

Cross hybridisation among the selected parents
D

Selection and testing of superior recombinants

Solution

The desired characters are very often combined from two different plants (parents), for example high protein quality of one parent may need to be combined with disease resistance from another parent. This is possible by cross hybridising the two parents to produce hybrids that genetically combine the desired characters in one plant. This is a very time-consuming and tedious process since the pollen grains from the desirable plant chosen as male parent have to be collected and placed on the stigma of the flowers selected as female parent.

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