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CBSE 2024 · Region 5 · Set 3 · Q25
State why plant breeders are interested in artificial hybridisation programme. How do they carry out this process?
State why plant breeders are interested in artificial hybridisation programme. How do they carry out this process ?
Marking-scheme solution
• To combine desirable characters to produce commercially superior
varieties,
• Emasculation of a bisexual flower, Bagging, Collection of pollen from
desired male parent and dusting the pollen grain on stigma, Rebagging.
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