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The colour of high yielding Mexican wheats were not liked by the Indians. It was originally red grained. Their cultivation was adopted in India on the large, scale only when exposure to gamma radiations converted them to amber grained. Which of following methods of plant-breeding has been put into practice in the given case?

A
Polyploid breeding
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Interspecific hybridisation
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Issue culture
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Mutation breeding
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Solution

The correct option is C Mutation breeding
Mutation breeding is the way toward presenting seeds to synthetic concoctions or radiation so as to create freaks with attractive qualities to be reproduced with different cultivars.
So, the correct answer is 'Mutation breeding'.


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