Q.Dwarfing gene of wheat is :
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Norin 10 is the dwarfing gene source used to develop the short, high-yielding wheat varieties of the Green Revolution.
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The Green Revolution's dramatic increase in wheat yields depended on introducing dwarfing genes that shortened the plant's stem, making it resistant to lodging (falling over) when heavily fertilised and bearing a large grain head. This dwarfing trait was sourced from Norin 10, a Japanese wheat variety, which was used by Norman Borlaug and his collaborators to breed semi-dwarf, high-yielding wheat cultivars adopted widely across India and other developing countries from the 1960s onward. The other options are dwarfing/mutant v …
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