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What characteristics to plant breeders look for in potato plants?
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Do potato chips help plant growth?
Potato chips are a highly salted food, and as such they would bad for most plants, which do better in soil that is not too salty. And even those plants which are tolerant of salt, would derive little benefit from potato chips, which contain little of the minerals that help plant fertility.
Why plants grown form seeds can vary from the parent plants in many ways?
The same reason you don't look exactly like either one of your parents. The pollen from one plant with certain characteristics often will fertilize the egg of another plant with certain other characteristics and the resulting seed with have some of the characteristics of the "daddy" plant and some from the "mommy" plant.
Is a potato autotroph or heterotroph?
A potato is a plant and all plants are producers. Autotrophs are organisms that can produce their own food from the substances available in their surroundings using light (photosynthesis) or chemical energy (chemosynthesis). Plants are called both autotrophs and producers.
What characteristics do plant breeders look for when breeding rose bushes?
In a red rose bush plant breeders may look for good pollen, a good shine in color, and for it to grow well. These are just a few suggestions to help you as this may get you started trying thinking out of the box or if you now any one who is a plant breeder ask them for help.
Describe gregor mendels experiment with pea plants?
Gregor Mendel's pea plant experiment allowed him great control, as pea plants can self-pollinate or cross-pollinate, and he was able to pollinate them at will. He studied the characteristics of each plant he would cross-pollinate, perform the pollination and plant the resulting seeds, then study the characteristics of the resulting plants.
Can you eat potato from a decorative potato plant?
CAn you eat a decrative potato plants potato?
What are some Examples of creeping plants?
carper grass, mimosa, sweet potato plant
What kind of potato plants have white flowers?
Most potato plants have white flowers. Sweet potatoes are the only potato plants without white flowers. (they have no flowers)
Is a potato a flower?
The potato itself is a tuber, but potato plants are flowering plants and as such do indeed have flowers.
What is pomato in transgenic plant?
a trangenic plant containing genes from both potato and tomato plants
A plant known as a pomato is transgenic plant which contains genes from both?
Tomato and Potato plants
How do plant breeders prevent pollination with other plants?
they physically cut and remove either the anthers from the receptor plant or the stigma from the pollen donor plant.
What color flowers do potato plants have?
The flower from a red potato plant is small and lavenderish with a yellow stigma in the center.
In an attempt to produce a potato that tastes good and also resist disease plant breeders crossed a potato variety that tastes good with a variety that resist disease this technique is an example of?
selective breeding
When potato plant produces flowers fruits and seeds then why they reproduce with the help of eyes on the potato tuber?
Potato reproduce with the help of the eyes on the potao tuber because the seeds of potato plants are very week and rarely grow into plants.
What will happen if you don't mound potato plants?
The mounds are to keep potato-eating bugs away from the potato plant. There will be lesser number of tubers with smaller size.
How do we Describe the characteristics of a spore bearing plants?
spore bearing or sporophyies are spore bearing plants.......
