CBSE 2024 · Region 5 · Set 3 · Q25 · 3 marks
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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