Genetic Improvement of Crops under the Climate Resilience
S Mohan Jain
Published: September 01, 2021.
Abstract
The basic requirement of plant breeding is the exploitation of natural and induced genetic diversity in developing plant varieties for sustainable food production. Plant breeders are handicapped due to lack of availability or non-existence of desired genotypes. However, they have successfully recombined the desired genes from the existed available gene pool, and successfully develop new cultivars; faced with new challenges such as climate change, human population growth, etc.,