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Improved flower performance:
- improved longevity's/ shelf-life
- broadened colour range
- improved disease and insect resistance
- improved growth charactersitics
- to overcome natural domancies
- faster cropping time
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What is the significance of Plant Breeding?
Plant breeding brings improvement in quality and quantity of production in plants by improving their genome.
Why is it important that Mendel began with purebred plant?
The correct term is "true-breeding". What that means is that if he takes his two pea plants with white flowers and breeds them together, he will always get a pea plant with white flowers. Something that is true-breeding for a particular trait is homozygous, i.e. if the allele for red flowers is R and the allele for white flowers is w, then a true-breeding white flowering plant is ww, and true-breeding red flowering plant is RR. If you cross-breed a true-breeding red flowering with a true-breeding white flowering plant, you would get 1/4 of the offspring as true-breeding red flowers, 1/4 of the off-spring as true-breeding white flowers, and 1/2 the offspring as heterozygous (not true-breeding) red flowers - Rw. If you don't start with true-breeding plants - say you start with Rw and ww (a red and a white plant) you get 1/2 the offspring heterozygous red, and 1/2 true-breeding white. Thus if you didn't know anymore, you would assume that half the time when you breed a red and a white plant, you would get a red plant, and half the time a white, which is incorrect. Furthermore, if you conducted the experiment again, say with RR and Rw, you would get a different result (in this case, all red). By starting with plants that are true-breeding, you ensure that you get the same results that properly show how the traits are passed on.
What is used to improve the phenotype of plants?
Plant breeding
What happened in Mendels experiments when a pea plant received two different alleles for the same traits?
When Mendel crossed a true-breeding short plant with a true-breeding tall plant, all the offspring were tall. Which term describes the gene for tallness?
What happened in Mendel's experiments when a pea plant received two different allele's for the same trait?
When Mendel crossed a true-breeding short plant with a true-breeding tall plant, all the offspring were tall. Which term describes the gene for tallness?
What is plant breeding in floriculture?
Developing/breeding new cultivars/varieties having better floral and quality traits.
What is floriculture?
Floriculture, or flower farming, is a discipline of horticulture concerned with the cultivation of flowering and ornamental plants for gardens and for floristry, comprising the floral industry. The development plant breeding of new varieties is a major occupation of floriculturists.For the source and more detailed information concerning this issue, click on the related links section indicated below.
Why is it important to know the mode of reproduction of crops in plant breeding?
to determine its genetic composition, which, in turn, is the deciding factor to develop suitable breeding and selection methods.
What does floriculture refer to?
Floriculture is the cultivation of flowers.
What has the author Chas N Page written?
Chas. N. Page has written: 'Page's home floriculture' -- subject(s): Floriculture, Floriculture. 'Aquaria' -- subject(s): Goldfish, Aquariums 'Parrots & other talking birds' -- subject(s): Parrots 'History and description of the great Page estate' 'Canary breeding and training' -- subject(s): Canaries
How do you get plant dragon by breeding?
you can't get it by breeding, you have to buy it.
Relationship between crop productivity and plant breeding?
What is the relationship between productivity and plant breeding
How do you search the online journals for plant breeding and genetics?
How do you search the online journals for plant breeding and genetics?"
What has the author R Frankel written?
R. Frankel has written: 'Pollination mechanisms, reproduction and plant breeding' -- subject(s): Plants, Fertilization of plants, Reproduction, Plant-breeding, Plant breeding
Why were true-breeding pea Plant important for Mendels experiment?
True breeding plants were homozygous for all the characters expressed, hence inheritance of characters was better understood with the help of these plants.
What is the significance of Plant Breeding?
Plant breeding brings improvement in quality and quantity of production in plants by improving their genome.
How do you get cactus dragon on Dragon City?
By Breeding Earth and Plant Dragon, you can also have Tropical Dragon with Earth and Plant.
