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Question
With the help of suitable diagram define 'bagging' and 'tagging' of flower.
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Solution
Bagging: During Hybridization, emasculated flowers are covered with butter paper or polythene bag of suitable size to prevent pollination by pollengrains of unwanted source. This is known as bagging.
Tagging: After dusting the pollengrains on stigma of emasculated flower, it is rebagged and tag with relevant information such as date of emasculation, date of pollination, details of male and female parents, etc is attached with plants. This is known as tagging.
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