In north India, a sugarcane farmer would be best advised to grow:
1. | Saccharum barberi |
2. | Saccharum officinarum |
3. | A hybrid of Saccharum barberi and Saccharum officinarum |
4. | A hybrid of Saccharum officinarum and a grass Aegilops squarrosa |
The biggest constraint of plant breeding is:
1. availability of desirable gene in the crop and its wild relatives
2. infrastructure
3. trained manpower
4. transfer of genes from unrelated sources.
Breeding crops with higher levels of vitamins and minerals, or higher protein and healthier fats is called:
1. | Bioremediation | 2. | Biofortification |
3. | Food adulteration | 4. | Biomagnification |
Micro-propagation is:
1. propagation of microbes in vitro
2. propagation of plants in vitro
3. propagation of cells in vitro
4. growing plants on a smaller scale