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PLANT INTRODUCTION (the purposes of plant introduction (to obtain an…
PLANT INTRODUCTION
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advantages
- entirely new crop plant is derived
- it provide new crop varities
- Quick & economical method
- Protection of crops from damage by introducing them into disease free areas.
- Development of superior varieties through selection & hybridization by using introduction
objectives of PI
- to introduce new plant species by creating ways to build up new industries (oil palm)
- to introduce high yielding varieties to increase food production (rice,wheat)
- to enrich the germplasm collection
- to get new sources of resistance against both biotic & abiotic stress
DEFINE
1.transference of a genotype or a group of genotype of crop plants from the place of their cultivation into a new area where they were not being grown previously.
2.movement of crop varieties from 1 environment into another within a country is also known as introduction.
QUARANTINE- play important role in introduction, to ensure that material which is to be introduced should not carry disease or pests with it.
ACCLIMATIZATION
- The process that leads to the adaptations of a variety to a new environment
- sometimes. the performance of a variety in a new environment improve with the no of generations grown.
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