Ncert Exercises & Solutions

Q.55 What is meant by germplasm collection? What are its benefits?

The collection of all the diverse alleles of all the genes of a crop plant is called germplasm

collection. It is of great benefits in plant breeding programmes as it offers, to the breeders,

the entire of genes and alleles and the characteristics which a plant expresses.

‘The breeder selects the most favourable characters of a particular gene, manipulates it and

transfers to a desirable parent.