Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production


  1. In tissue culture medium, the embryoids formed from pollen grains is due to









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    Cellular totipotency is the ability, shown by many living cells to form all types of tissue that constitute the mature organism.

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    Cellular totipotency is the ability, shown by many living cells to form all types of tissue that constitute the mature organism.


  1. The reason why vegetatively reproducing crop plants are best suited for maintaining hybrid vigour is that









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    In vegetative reproduction the same genotype can be propagated from one generation to the next.

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    In vegetative reproduction the same genotype can be propagated from one generation to the next.



  1. Haploid plant cultures are obtained from









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    All others are diploid but pollen grain is haploid.

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    All others are diploid but pollen grain is haploid.


  1. Haploid plants are preferred over diploids for mutation study because in haploids









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    Mutations are generally recessive so they are not expressed in their heterozygous condition. If plant is haploid then mutation can express themselves.

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    Mutations are generally recessive so they are not expressed in their heterozygous condition. If plant is haploid then mutation can express themselves.



  1. Cellular totipotency was demonstrated by









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    F.C. Steward & co-workers in 1964 raised the entire carrot plant from carrotroot culture. They established the cellular totipotency i.e. capacity of a cell to develop a new plant. However the idea of totipotency was given earlier by German botanist Gottlieb Haberlandt. He tried to grow isolated leaf cell but could not succeed.

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    F.C. Steward & co-workers in 1964 raised the entire carrot plant from carrotroot culture. They established the cellular totipotency i.e. capacity of a cell to develop a new plant. However the idea of totipotency was given earlier by German botanist Gottlieb Haberlandt. He tried to grow isolated leaf cell but could not succeed.