HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
HORTICULTURAL BRANCHES
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Question
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Developing new “cultivars” of plants for production.
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Breeding and Genetics
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Post Harvest Management
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Floriculture
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Agronomy
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The steps involved in breeding a new variety are collection of variability, selection of parents, cross hybridisation of the selected parents, selection and testing of superior recombinants, release and commercialisation of new cultivars.
Detailed explanation-2: -Methods involved New breeding techniques (NBTs) make specific changes within plant DNA in order to change its traits, and these modifications can vary in scale from altering single base, to inserting or removing one or more genes.
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