Biology- Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production

germplasm collection ✘ protoplasm collection ✘ herbarium ✘ somaclonal collection ✔

Rohu ✘ Hilsa ✘ Catla ✘ Common Carp ✔

Thick stem, long intemodes, high sugar content and disease resistant ✘ Thick stem, high sugar content and profuse flowering ✘ Thick stem, short intemodes, high sugar content, disease resistant ✘ Thick stem, low sugar content, disease resistant ✔

availability of desirable gene in the crop and its wild relatives ✘ infrastructure ✘ trained manpower ✘ transfer of genes from unrelated sources ✔

breed ✘ race ✘ variety ✘ species ✔

biofortification ✘ biomagnification ✘ bioinformatics ✘ biotechnology ✔

S munja ✘ S officinarum ✘ S barberi ✘ All of these ✔

increases vigour ✘ improves the breed ✘ increases heterozygosity ✘ increases homozygosity ✔

anther culture ✘ shoot meristem culture ✘ ovary culture ✘ leaf-cell culture ✔

organ culture ✘ micropropagation ✘ plantlet culture ✘ macropropagation ✔