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Agriculture · Q490

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 490

Q490

Multiline cultivars are deliberated mixtures of

A.
Unrelated line
B.
Isogenic lines
Answer
C.
Unrelated lines
D.
All of these

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
Multiline cultivars are deliberated mixtures of Isogenic lines.
Multiline variety is a mixture of several pure lines of similar phenotype but has different genes for the character under consideration the disease resistance means these are isogenic lines.
Isogenic lines are defined as individuals that possess the same genotype irrespective of their homo- or heterozygous nature.