EFFECT OF IRRADIATION IN TOMATO

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THE useful and encouraging work carried out in Sweden and U.S.A. has clearly
demonstrated the possibilities and promise of the use of irradiation as a tool to cause
variation in plant populations. Most of the mutations are deleterious. Gustafsson
(1947) estimated that only one in one thousand changes may be useful for plant breeding purposes. It is now evident that by appropriate methods we can induce hereditary changes causing an increase in the yielding ability of a variety and improve special
qualities of importance in modern agriculture such as earliness, protein content, sugar
content, fruit size, disease resistance, etc.  

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Year: 1964
Volume: 24
Issue: 2
Article DOI: NA
Print ISSN: 0019-5200
Online ISSN: 0975-6906

Authors

N. S. DHESI and K. S. NANDPURI info_circle

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