About Lesson
- Induction of desirable mutant alleles which may not be available in the germplasm.
- It is useful in improving specific characteristics of a well-adapted high yielding variety.
- Mutagenesis has been successfully used to improve various quantitative characters including yield.
- F1hybrids from intervarietal crosses may be treated with mutagens in order to increase genetic variability by inducing mutation and to facilitate recombination of linked genes.
- Irradiation of interspecific (distant) hybrids has been done to produce translocations.
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