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Agriculture · Q976

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 976

Q976

Disease resistance in barley is

A.
Quantitative characteristic
B.
Qualitative characteristic
Answer
C.
Both A and B
D.
None of the above

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
Disease resistance in barley is a Qualitative characteristic.
Qualitative disease resistance is effective against a particular pathogen race. Qualitative plant resistance traits produce discrete classes of resistant and susceptible individuals and segregate them as simple Mendelian loci.