Zoology - Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production Question with Solution | TestHub
Arrange the main steps of plant breeding sequentially:
I. Cross-hybridisation among the selected parents
II. Evaluation and selection of parents
III. Selection and testing of superior recombinants
IV. Testing, release and commercialization of new cultivars
V. Collection of variability
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Collection of variability is the entire collection of seeds or genes of a crop plant. Success of any plant breeding programme depends on the germplasm collection. Parents are evaluated and selected, followed by cross hybridisation among the selected parents, than testing and selection of superior recombinants. This is followed by testing the new cultivar in farmers field for three successive growing season.
