Plant breeding is the science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. It has been used to improve the quality of...

Plant breeding started with sedentary agriculture, particularly the domestication of the first agricultural plants, a practice which is estimated to date...

Look up Breeding or breeding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breeding is sexual reproduction that produces offspring, usually animals or plants. It can...

Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular...

medicinal plant breeding". Plant Science. 298: 110573. doi:10.1016/j.plantsci.2020.110573. ISSN 0168-9452. Bradshaw, John E. (2017). "Plant breeding: past...

The Plant Breeding Institute was an agricultural research organisation in Cambridge in the United Kingdom between 1912 and 1987. The institute was established...

growers have employed many breeding techniques, starting with traditional plant breeding and then moving on to molecular breeding and genetic engineering...

evolution. Exposing plants to radiation is sometimes called radiation breeding and is a sub class of mutagenic breeding. Radiation breeding was discovered...

parent. The concept of a hybrid is interpreted differently in animal and plant breeding, where there is interest in the individual parentage. In genetics, attention...

resistant plants would be further developed. Plants may also be crossed with themselves to produce inbred varieties for breeding. Classical breeding relies...