Question

Plants can be disease resistant by

• A. Breeding with their wild relatives
• B. Colchicine treatment
• C. Hormone treatment
• D. Heat treatment

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

Breeding with their wild relatives

Plants can be disease resistant by breeding with a plant which naturally have resistance gene. Generally, wild varieties of plants have resistance gene for disease so breed important crop with their wild varieties to get disease resistant plants.