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Question
Give any four advantages of mutation breeding.
Solution
Four advantages of mutation breeding are as follows:
- Mutation breeding can effective to disseminate an undesirable character from a crop variety.
- It improves the morphological and psychological characteristics of cultivated crops.
- Mutation breeding can improve the disease resistance of crop plants.
- Mutation breeding can be used to improve the specific characters of a well-adapted high yielding variety.
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