Question

Explain ‘mutation breeding’ as a method of developing disease resistant crop plants. Give an example of a pulse crop where this technique has helped.

Answer 1

Explanation:

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Answer 2

Mutation breeding

Explanation:

• It helps in the crop variety in the following ways:-
• Mutation breeding can be used for both oligogenic and polygenic traits in plants.
• It improves morphological and physiological characters of cultivated crops.
• Mutation breeding can improve the disease resistance of crop plants.
• Induced mutations can induce desirable mutant alleles in crop plants.
• Mutation breeding can be used to improve the specific characters of a well-adapted high yielding variety.
• Example: In moong bean protection from yellow mosaic infection/fine mold were actuated.