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In plant breeding programmes, the entire collection of plants/seeds having all the diverse alleles for all genes in a given crop is called:

  1. A
    Selection of superior recombinants
  2. B
    Cross-hybridisation
  3. C
    Evaluation of parents
  4. D
    Germplasm collection

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The germplasm collection is the starting point of any breeding program. it consists of the entire collection of plants or seeds representing all the diverse alleles for all genes in a particular crop species.

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In plant breeding programmes, the entire collection of plants/seeds having all the diverse alleles for all genes in a given crop is called:
A
Selection of superior recombinants
B
Cross-hybridisation
C
Evaluation of parents
D
Germplasm collection

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