Cross hybridization among selected parents during any plant breeding is meant to be a tedious and a time consuming process . Why ??

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Cross breeding between selected parent is a tedious process because pollen grain from selected male parent is put on the stigma of selected female parent to obtain required trait. But chances of this hybridisation techniques to be successful is very rare. Therefore it is tedious process.

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