Science > Biology > Improvement in Crop variety
- The Need for the Increase in Food Production
- Stages Involved in the Increase in Food Production
- What is the Green Revolution?
- Why it is Termed as Revolution
- The Features of the Green Revolution
- Merits of the Green Revolution
- Demerits of the Green Revolution
Methods of Improvement in Crop Variety:
- Need for Improvement in Crop Variety
- Plant Breeding and its Objectives
- Steps in plant Breeding
Step – 1: Collection and Conservation of Germplasm
- Domestication
- Collection of Variability
- Characteristics of Germplasm
- Conservation of Germplasm
- Objectives of Collection of Germplasm
- Methods of Collection of Germplasm
- Gene Banks for Various Crops in India
- List of International Institutes Conserving Germplasm
Step – 2: Selection and Testing of Superior Recombinants
- Natural and Artificial Selection
- Mass Selection
- Pure Line Selection
- Clonal Collection