The Problem of Plant Breeders
1979
The art of plant breeding, particularly successful in the last one hundred years, but nevertheless several thousand years old, relies essentially on the identification of superior traits in individuals. These individuals are either removed from the general population and multiplied to constitute a new population with superior attributes or crossed to other plants to combine specific characteristics which are desirable from an agronomic or utilization perspective.
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