Question

Artificial hybridisation is one of the major approaches of crop improvement programmes. For the bisexual flower it includes the following steps in correct sequence.

• A. Bagging, emasculation, pollination, rebagging
• B. Pollination, bagging, rebagging
• C. Bagging, pollination, rebagging
• D. Emasculation, bagging, pollination, rebagging

Answer 1

The correct option is D Emasculation, bagging, pollination, rebagging

Steps in artificial hybridisation

Artificial hybridisation in plant breeding programmes is achieved by artificially pollinating the selected female parent plant with the pollen from the selected male parent plant.

Following are the steps of artificial hybridisation in bisexual plants:

(i) Selection of parents.
(ii) Emasculation of bisexual flower which will be the female parent.
(iii) Bagging.
(iv) Collection of pollen from male parent.
(v) Dusting the pollen on stigma/ pollination.
(vi) Re-bagging.

Final answer

(C) Emasculation, bagging, pollination, rebagging