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प्रश्न
Discuss the two main limitations of plant hybridization programme.
उत्तर
- Plant hybridization programme is often constrained by the availability of limited number of disease resistance genes that are present in various crop varieties or wild relatives.
- Several wild relatives of different cultivated species of plants have been shown to have certain resistant character but have very low yield.
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