• Mutation breeding, sometimes referred to as "variation breeding", is the process of exposing seeds to chemicals, radiation, or enzymes in order to generate...
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    simple hand-held gadget to obtain its calyx Some breeding lines developed from the mutation breeding programme at UKM. "Roselle - plant". Encyclopedia...
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    Atomic gardening is a form of mutation breeding where plants are exposed to radiation. Some of the mutations produced thereby have turned out to be useful...
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    Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular...
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  • like all living organisms, occasionally have mutations that affect their body type. Sometimes, these mutations are striking enough that humans select for...
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    desirable traits to be bred with other cultivars – a process known as mutation breeding. Classical plant breeders also generate genetic diversity within a...
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    In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA. Viral genomes contain...
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    traits when compared to previous methods, such as selective breeding and mutation breeding. The discovery of DNA and the improvement of genetic technology...
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    have been breeding for different color mutations in cockatiels since the 1940s. The lutino cockatiel mutation was the second cockatiel mutation to be established...
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    This is the traditional approach. Mutation breeding. Mutagenesis can be used to cause a wide range of mutations to select from. The traditional clonal...
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