Question
You have obtained a high yielding variety of tomato. Name and explain the procedure that ensures retention of the desired characteristics repeatedly in large populations of future generations of the tomato crop.
Solution
- Micropropagation (a type of vegetative propagation) ensures retention of the desired characteristics repeatedly in large populations of future generations of the tomato crop.
- A small part of the plant is excised and grown under a sterile condition in special nutrient medium to obtain many such plants which would be genetically identical to the original plants.
