Answer to Question #247469 in Genetics for Mr SpongeBob

Question

The desert plant Welwitschia mirabilis (Figure 1) is an extraordinary plant, that can survive in the hot, dry desert where other plants
can't survive. On the other hand, food crops have little to no drought resistance or tolerance. The majority of food crops are annuals. In
nature, such plants grow only in the rainy seasons, when temperatures are appropriate for vegetative growth; in agriculture its called
"growing season”. The Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry has hypothesized that putting Welwitschia mirabilis plant’s survival
skills into maize will make it drought tolerant and expand cultivation of maize to marginal arid areas of Namibia.Imagine, you have been engaged by the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry as a scientist to make use of the Welwitschia mirabilis
surviving skills to develop a maize variety that is drought tolerant, kindly detail all the steps to the Minister on how you would intend to come up
with such a maize variety.

Answer 1

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