India's wheat yield revolution in the 1960s was possible primarily due to:

India's wheat yield revolution in the 1960s was possible primarily due to:
  1. hybrid seeds
  2. increased chlorophyll content
  3. mutations resulting in plant height reduction
  4. acquired trait mutations.

Solution

Through selective breeding, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist, created a dwarf variety of wheat that put most of its energy into edible kernels rather than long, inedible stems.

Asked in: NEET 2004

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