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Define plant breeding? Describe the various methods of plant breeding.
Define plant breeding? Describe the various methods of plant breeding.
Plant breeding means production of new varieties or strains by a programme of artificial selection spanning several generations of the organism concerned.
It involves hybridization and mutation breeding:
Hybridisation: It involves the crossing between genetically dissimilar plants to produce a new kind. Crossing may be between two different varieties (intervarietal cross-breeding) or between the two different species of the same genus (inter specific cross-breeding) and between different genera (intergeneric cross-breeding).
Mutation breeding: The breeding that takes place through various mutagens.
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