question_answer 41)

  In the area of plant breeding, it is important not only to preserve the seeds of the variety being cultivated, but also to preserve all its wild relatives. Explain with a suitable example.

Answer:

                  Collection and preservation of all the different wild varieties, species and relatives of the cultivated species is a important for effective exploitation of natural genes available in the population, e.g., sources of resistance genes may be cultivated varieties, germplasm collections of the crop or wild relatives.