Plant Technology and Maintanence

Artificial Selection: selecting the desire traits of a plant, and only breed the plants that have the desired traits

• mass selection: selecting the largest and biggest
• pure line selection: selecting certain traits
• cross-breeding: breeding two plants that have two different desired traits

Tissue Culturing Technology

• Obtain cells from the meristem
• Grow the cells through mitosis. The mass of cell is called a callus
• Apply hormones such as auxin and cytokinin so that roots and shoots can grow

Gene transfer: splicing the genes of one species into another to get the desired traits

• Cold resistant gene: obtained from a kind of fish
• Bt gene: codes for proteins that paralyze and kill insects

Monoculture: When a farmland is only used to grow one kind of prop. This creates problems, as the nutrients in the soil will get depleted

Solutions:

• Crop rotation: rotate the kind of crops grown on a farmland. Different crops will require different nutrients
• Farm manure: spread animal wastes on soil
• Plant manure: crops are planted but not harvested
• Fertilizers: Inorganic minerals that contain the missing nutrients from the soil

Pest Control

• Pesticide: killing the bugs using chemicals
• Sex attractant control: make the male bugs infertile
• Biological control: introduce other species that can kill the pests
• Hydroponic environment: grow the plants such that the roots are underwater