In north India, a sugarcane farmer would be best advised to grow:

1. Saccharum barberi
2. Saccharum officinarum
3. A hybrid of Saccharum barberi and Saccharum officinarum
4. A hybrid of Saccharum officinarum and a grass Aegilops squarrosa
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The biggest constraint of plant breeding is:

1. availability of desirable gene in the crop and its wild relatives

2. infrastructure

3. trained manpower

4. transfer of genes from unrelated sources.

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Breeding crops with higher levels of vitamins and minerals, or higher protein and healthier fats is called:

1. Bioremediation 2. Biofortification
3. Food adulteration 4. Biomagnification
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Micro-propagation is:

1. propagation of microbes in vitro

2. propagation of plants in vitro

3. propagation of cells in vitro

4. growing plants on a smaller scale

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