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Title: Conventional plant breeding
Conventional plant breeding resulting in open pollinated varieties (OP) or hybrid varieties has had a tremendous impact on agricultural productivity over the last decades. While an extremely important tool, conventional plant breeding also has its limitations. First, breeding can only be done between two plants that can sexually mate with each other. This limits the new traits that can be added to those that already exist in a particular species. Second, when plants are crossed, many traits are transferred along with the trait/s of interest - including those traits that have undesirable effects on yield potential.
Subject:
biotechnology hybridization plant breeding self-pollination mutation breeding breed true F1 hybrid climacteric fruits
Material : biotech
Serial Title : Pocket K
Publisher : ISAAA SEA Center,
Publication Date : December 2004
PR-MS
2004
BIC779
SEARCA Library
Printed