NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Frost-resistant strawberries reduce the need to use chemical pesticides because a gene has already been inserted into the plant to prevent what the pesticides would fight off, such as harmful bacteria.

Detailed explanation-2: -Simplot and Plant Sciences officials said genetically modified strawberries will help reduce waste, and make them available to consumers much of the year. The strawberries will contain genes from only strawberries, selecting desirable traits that have been cultivated over decades.

Detailed explanation-3: -Plant breeders use a different technique to create a strawberry variety with desired traits. This technique is called hybridization. Hybridization is the process of crossing two genetically different individuals to result in a third with a different, often preferred, set of traits.

Detailed explanation-4: -Scott (1951) achieved some decaploid seedlings with excellent cold resistance from the hybrids of a pistillate octoploid strawberry (US 1798) × colchicine-induced tetraploid ‘Alpine’ F.

Detailed explanation-5: -These products are considered transgenic crops or organisms, and are often what people think of in terms of GMOs. Usually it takes about 10 years to modify a crop, or to incorporate a transgene and develop a hybrid for release to commercial farmers.