Prinnciples of Pure Line Selection

  Pure Line Selection   Pure line selection is one of the oldest and most important methods of plant breeding. It is mainly used for the improvement of self-pollinated crops. In agriculture, many crop plants show natural variation in characters such as plant height, maturity, grain size, seed colour, disease resistance, and yield. A plant breeder studies this variation and selects the best plant from the available population. When the selected superior plant is self-pollinated generation after generation, its progeny becomes highly uniform and stable. This uniform and genetically similar group of plants is called a pure line.   The concept of pure line selection has played a major role in the development of improved crop varieties. It helped breeders convert variable local populations into uniform and high-performing varieties. The method is simple, scientific, and economical, so it has remained a fundamental topic in plant breeding courses. For undergraduate stud...

NOSTOC PRACTICAL

 

Sample A1

1.    Supplied specimen typically forms gelatinous colonies, often referred to as "gelatinous masses" or "gelatinous colonies." These colonies can vary in size and shape.

 

2.    The colonies are greenish to bluish-green in color and contain many contorted or twisted trichomes.

 

3.    The trichomes are composed of rounded or oval cells. The cells are arranged in a single row, like beads on a string.

 

4.    They forms filaments of cells connected end to end. The filaments can be observed in the gelatinous matrix

 

5.    Individual cells of the specimen are typically cylindrical or bead-like in shape.

 

6.    They have characteristic photosynthetic pigments which gives them a greenish colour.

 

7.    Presence of larger, round cells with thick cell walls.

 

                        .........Hence the supplied specimen is Nostoc sp.

 

                             Systematic position:
                                                Class:        Cyanophyceae
                                                       Order:          Nostocales
                                                                 Family:        Nostocaceae
                                                                            Genus:       Nostoc

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