Question

Give objectives of plant breeding.

Answer 1

Plant Breeding aims to improve the characteristics of plant so that they become more desirable agronomically and economically. Thus, the chiefobjective of plant breeding is to develop such improved varieties ofcrop plants that will be commercially successful. ... Most of the breedingprogrammes aim at higher crop yield.


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Answer 2

Answer:

The objectives of plant breeding are- disease resistance, higher yielding, early maturity, resistance to flood, adaptability, improvement in quality, resistance to saline condition of soil, responses to manuring, insect resistance and resistance to drought.

Explanation:

The science that depends on the cytogenetic and genetics of plant that focuses on improving the genetic natures of crop, is known as Plant Breeding. There are some important objectives that aim at the development of plant varieties and improvement in their quality.

These objectives include- the increase in plant production with the help of scientific methods of breeding, improvement in plant quality by breeding, varieties of plant that are insect resistant are being breed by high yielding methods, by breeding the adaptability of plants are increased in respect of soil and climate and many more.