Plant Breeding

Plant breeding is the ______________ of plants in order to create desired plant types.

• Breeding

• Manipulation

• Crossing

Thale Cress is an example of

• Inbreeding

• Hybrid breeding

• Genetic engineering

Conventional plant breeding dates back to (a)  

The entire collection (of plants/seeds) having all the diverse alleles for all genes in a given crop is called

• Protoplasm

• Collection of variability

• Germplasm collection

• Plant collection

Cross-hybridization is a very time-consuming and tedious process

• True

• False

Breeding for disease resistance requires

• a good source of resistance

• Planned hybridisation

• Diseases test

• all of these

The new varieties of plants are produced by

• Introduction and mutation

• Selection and hybridisation

• Mutation and Selection

• Selection and Introduction

The noble-laureate that successfully crossed and produced the semi dwarf wheat hybrid is :

• Norman E Borulag

• M.S. Swaminathan

• Kalyan Sona

• Jaya Ratna

The rice crop hybrids that were produced in India are:

• Ratna

• IR – 8

• Sonalika

• Jaya

The botanical name of Sugarcane is:

• Oryza sativum

• Saccharum barberi

• Pisum Sativum

• Triticum