Question

Plants can be made disease resistant through

• A. colchicine treatment
• B. X-ray treatment
• C. breeding with wild relatives
• D. hormone treatment

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

breeding with wild relatives

Answer 2

Maximum disease resistance is seen in wild plants. They have excellent genetic material (genes) to withstand attack of pathogens. These materials can be transferred to their relative wild species through breeding experiments or through recombinant $DNA$ technology.