For better plants
A dramatic improvement in plant breeding —gene selection—is envisaged as a result of recent work of a geneticist of the Grasslands Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research at Palmerston North.
Dr K. K. Pandey, who was at one time with the department at Lincoln, using pollen exposed to heavy doses of radiation, has demonstrated the possibility of transferring single gene characteristics to female parent plants. Qualities for disease resistance, resistance to cold, to pests, or for other factors such as tannin content for the control of bloat, which are normally controlled by one or a few genes, may now be singled out and passed on in one or'>wo generation*,
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34000, 14 November 1975, Page 6
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115For better plants Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34000, 14 November 1975, Page 6
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