Breeding of Fruit and Plantation Crops

Bud mutation

• Mutation is a sudden heritable change in a character of an organism. Mutations produced by changes in the base sequence of genes are known as gene or point mutation. Some mutations may be produced by changes in chromosome structure, or even in chromosome number they are termed as chromosomal mutations. Mutation occurring in buds of somatic tissues which are used for propagation is called as bud mutation. e.g. clonal crops.